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...Expressed dissatisfaction with U.S. shippers because, he said, they had transported only 4,767 qualified European immigrants to the U.S. by Oct. 21, and announced that four merchant ships would speed the movement. (Shipping authorities pointed out that Government records showed that over 20,000 immigrants had been transported, and that three of the four ships mentioned by the President had been carrying immigrants for months...
...course of dissolution. . . . What struck me was the quiet and peacefulness. The farmer is busy on the farm, the women planting or harvesting, the people gathered at the market place, peddlers with heavy loads along the roads, the dogtrot of the carrier with his load on his back, a merchant on his way to the next village. . . . I had a long talk with a Republican leader whom I'd known in Holland. He used the comparison with water in the course of freezing. Consolidation, he said, is like water that freezes on top; there are large stretches where...
Into Russia as magazine correspondents flew the Elliott Roosevelts, who got a royal* welcome in Moscow from the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS). Out of Mombasa, British East Africa, bound for New York, steamed a merchant ship captained by Jonathan M. Wainwright V, the General's son, whose charges included an ostrich, a wildcat, a ringtailed monkey, four pythons and six hyenas. Across the U.S. on a lecture tour streaked Randolph Churchill, who was having hair-raising luck. While he was doing 50 on an Indiana highway a wheel flew...
Bostonians, though in decreasing numbers, have attended Lowell lectures ever since the Institute was founded in 1839 by John Lowell (of The Lowells).* John was a successful textile merchant of 32 when his wife and two daughters died unexpectedly. Ill and atrabilious, he began a round-the-world trip with all the comforts of home (items: a horse and a portrait painter). In Luxor, Egypt, he drew up his will; in Bombay, India, he died...
...Michigan, same benefits but with a $500 maximum; total, $270 million. ¶ Rhode Island, $200 per man, total $19½ million. (The state set aside another half million to give the same benefit to merchant mariners...