Word: merchanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hurrying to the foundering British freighter Exeter City through a swirling mid-Atlantic storm steamed the American Merchant Line's S. S. American Merchant, captained by Giles C. Stedman, 35, hero of the Ignazio Florio rescue in 1925. A giant wave had swept overboard the Exeter City's skipper and three men, her bridge and most of her superstructure. Unable to launch a free lifeboat. Captain Stedman shot a lifeline aboard the fast-sinking freighter, by means of which the ship's 22 survivors towed over an empty lifeboat, had themselves towed to safety...
...this time Paris newspapers were charging, without a scrap of evidence, that "evidently there has been sabotage by secret foreign agents." Much flustered, French Minister of Merchant Marine Léon Meyer called such an-explanation "too easy," suggested off his own bat that fires on modernistically decorated liners might be "due to the use of too exotic woods." He rushed off to Cherbourg "to institute an inquiry which I promise shall be searching and severe...
...Stanley's real name was John Rowlands. Born (probably illegitimate) in North Wales about 1841. he spent most of his hard childhood in a workhouse, ran away at 15 and shipped as a cabinboy to the U. S. He got a job in New Orleans, was adopted by Merchant Henry Stanley, who died without leaving him a penny. During the Civil War young Stanley made the curious record of serving in both the Confederate and Union Armies. the Union Navy. Captured (as a Confederate) at Shiloh, he was offered freedom if he would enlist in the Union Army...
Early last summer Kreisler thought he would have to part with some of the rare books and manuscripts which he has stored in his house near Berlin but he and Mrs. Kreisler (the former Harriet Lies, daughter of a U. S. tobacco merchant) went to Monte Carlo, won $10.000 which tided them over...
Supplementing previous gifts for the restoration of Italian antiquities, art-loving Merchant Samuel Henry Kress (5-10-25¢ chain) gave Premier Mussolini $10,500 to complete the rebuilding of Mantua's Ducal Palace...