Word: piers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wall: "The gentleman will arrive a little before eleven. We shall have several of our men on the pier...
That evening on the Cunard Pier, experienced U. S. reporters noted the "usual arrangements." It is the custom of Le Monsieur never to enter or leave a liner by the ordinary passenger gangplank. Low down on the Aquitania's side a wide, square port was opened, a short, level gangplank was run out from the pier, and, just before eleven, the plank was walked by John Pierpont Morgan...
President and Senora Juan Campisteguy of Uruguay were at the pier. Señora Campisteguy to take Mrs. Hoover to the Parque Hotel where an entire upper floor was reserved, President Campisteguy to have a half-hour with Mr. Hoover at the National Palace. The populace was out in scores of thousands but here, more than in most of the South American cities visited, were heard cries of "Viva Sandino" and "Down with imperialistic America...
...Saturday night a gala opera performance was arranged (out of season). The Argentine's best dancers likewise performed. Mr. Hoover applauded vigorously, stayed late. Early Sunday morning President Irigoyen was at the red-carpeted pier to see his new friends off on the Argentine cruiser Buenos Aires. "Adios" he cried. "Buen Viaje!" A nine-hour run down the river Plata took them to Montevideo, Uruguay harbor-capital. There lay the U.S.S. Utah ready to carry Goodwill to Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba and home. But not before the Hoovers should have slept a night in Uruguay and dined with President Juan...
...cheerful, especially when the inspectors crashed his four bottles of choice liquor and told him that he would have to pay a big bill-$12,-919.25 in duties & fines-to recover all his property. William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards, onetime Collector of the Internal revenue, left the pier in a thoughtful mood, perhaps reflecting that other friends of his returning from Europe with goods to smuggle will not soon welcome his large and eloquent presence to meet them on the dock...