Word: morro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spectators who witnessed this slick musicomedy success last week could have guessed the travail its book had undergone. When the Morro Castle caught fire last September off the New Jersey coast, killed 134 people and ran aground, it also wrecked the libretto of Producer Vinton Freedley's Anything Goes. Months before in France, the oldtime British libretto team of Guy Bolton and Pelham Grenville Wodehouse had written a comic script about a marine disaster. The Morro Castle tragedy instantly ruled it out as a subject for fun-making. Producer Freedley sent up a distress signal, got two able...
Because it is largely responsible for the safety of vessels at sea, the U. S. Bureau of Navigation & Steamboat Inspection has had to take its share of blame for the Morro Castle disaster.* Notably concerned by the Bureau's apparent inefficiency was President Roosevelt. Last week, as the first step in its reorganization, he drafted a famed seaman to take what the Bureau's Director Joseph B. Weaver called "the most important job of its kind in the world." The job: supervising inspector of the Bureau's 2nd District (New York, Philadelphia, Albany, New Haven...
...Spontaneous combustion was advanced tonight as a possible cause of the Morro Castle tragedy in a report by Dickerson N. Hoover, Assistant Director of the Steamboat Inspection Service, to Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper...
Editors thanked the Providence which gave them a Morro Castle sensation when Strike news turned stale; a Hauptmann when the ship story petered out; and now a juicy murder just as the Hauptmann case seemed to head downhill. But they also should have offered a grateful word to Cinema. For it was the millions who had seen the film of An American Tragedy, not the thousands who had plugged through Dreiser's two-volume novel, that lifted the Wilkes-Barre story from a cheap, provincial homicide to a seven-day sensation...
Last month Captain Robert E. Carey of the Dollar liner President Cleveland was charged with adding to the death toll in the Morro Castle disaster by his delay and incompetence. Last week the two ship's officers who made the charge were removed from his command. Chances were they would be dismissed by the company, which exonerated Captain Carey on his past record...