Word: mauretania
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theron F. Pierce, presidential landlords, sailed on the Mauretania to remain until the President and Mrs. Coolidge. model tenants, leave Brule, Wis., and return to the White House...
Josef Casimir Hofmann, famed pianist, director of the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, left for England on the Mauretania to accept unusual jury service. To be judged: a carillon of 6r bells (the lightest, 7 Ibs.; the heaviest, 11 tons), destined for the Florida bird sanctuary of Publicist Edward William...
Seventeen years ago, the fast, graceful Mauretania outstripped her sister liners, logged 676 nautical miles in 24 hours. On a swift dash to Honolulu in 1923, the light cruiser Omaha set a 24-hr, record of 690 miles and linked the U. S. with Hawaii in 75 hours, 40 minutes, 40 seconds...
White Star Plans. However, as Mr. Bruce said this, the White Star Line's London office announced plans for a new liner approximately 1,000 feet long, bigger than its Majestic and swifter than the Cunard Mauretania. As soon as one of the slips at Queen's Island, Belfast, is vacant, the new ship's keel will be laid...
...Italian woman returned last week to Italy with two sorry souvenirs after a six-week visit to the U. S. She was Miss Luigia Vanzetti, aboard the S. S. Mauretania, with two urns. In one urn were half the ashes of Bartolomeo Vanzetti, her electrocuted, anarchist brother; in the other, half the ashes of Nicola Sacco, her brother's electrocuted, anarchist friend-murderers both, in the eyes of Massachusetts...