Word: packets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...punish you." Thereupon he sentenced Messrs. Bishirgian & Howeson to one year of imprisonment without hard labor. That was the same sentence passed upon mighty Lord Kylsant in 1931 in the same court house for the same offence in connection with a scandalous Royal Mail Steam Packet prospectus. The third pepper man received nine months. All appealed...
...allowed to smoke or drink. And at one time all prostitutes and opium-dealers were expelled from any city in which they were stationed. This was not always the case, however, for a member of my staff who visited Kalgan during the Kuominchun occupation brought me back a packet of opium sealed with the official 'chop' of the Kuominchun tax-collecting bureau, and reported that a new method of dealing with houses of prostitution had been devised. They were compelled to display a Christian text in Chinese on each side of the door. The fee for each board...
...that a generation of Cunard publicity for the now scrapped Mauretania should not be wasted, British Board of Trade officials were besought last week for permission to re-name the coastal paddlewheel steamer Queen the Mauretania. The paddlewheeler's owners are Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. Ltd., large stockholder in Cunard White Star. Shrewd, the Royal Mail hopes by calling the boat Mauretania to have the name available for a sister to the Queen Mary should one ever be built...
...With her two hefty sons, Tom and Chris, she operates the Greene Line, founded by her late husband. At 68, she can do most shipboard jobs, bosses her crews without profanity, likes to sew and embroider on deck. Recently "Ma" Greene bought for $135,000 the old-style packet Cape Girardeau which Chicago's onetime Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson used to use for political junkets. Renamed the Gordon C. Greene for "Ma" Greene's husband, she was ready last week, with 100 passengers and 700 tons of whiskey, soap and paint, to re-open steamboat passenger service between...
Having persuaded Investigator Rabell to incriminate himself thoroughly, Mr. Jones passed him a packet of marked bills. When the Investigator opened the study door to depart he was confronted by two Federal agents descending the stairs, guns drawn. He fled into the dining room, tossed the bills behind the door, surrendered...