Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Booth Tarkington published a novel last year called The Plutocrat. The hero was Earl Tinker, U. S. captain of industry. Mr. Tinker's fictitious shipmates on a Mediterranean cruise included James T. Weatheright of Weatheright's Worsteds; T. H. Smith, president of the G. L. and W.; Thomas Swingey of Swingey Brothers, Inc.; Harold M. Wilson, ex-chairman of the Board of the Western Industrial Corp., etc., etc. "You almost wonder," said Earl Tinker, "how the United States can go on running with these men out here on the ocean...
...perturbed. He called the First Lord of the Admiralty, William Clive Bridgeman, to Buckingham Palace and asked for details. Meanwhile the British public was flabbergasted by reports that there had been a "mutiny" aboard H. M. S. Royal Oak, Flagship of the First Battle Squadron of the British Mediterranean Fleet...
France. Hung against her poop like a great comb of brilliants, a huge electric sign F-R-A-N-C-E made the French Liner France a vessel unique as she moved through her Mediterranean cruise last' week. No other ship is known...
...Malta, Mediterranean. . .420 Singapore, Straits Settlement...
...successor chosen, Dr. Goodnow will "loaf for a while"; in May will represent Johns Hopkins in England at the three hundredth anniversary of Harvey's discovery that blood circulates; will probably ride around the Mediterranean...