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After ten days of a nightmare voyage the President Harding steamed into New York Harbor, flag at half-mast for Cabin Boy Johnson, and while three uninjured members of the ship's band played The Sidewalks of New York, warped into her pier, where 18 ambulances waited, rushed 26 to hospitals. From her hold were removed 25 automobiles, most of them virtual wrecks, to be towed away...
...vaudeville. For Recovery she developed her illuminating fan dance. In 1933 and 1934 Businesswoman Beck grossed $6,000 a week (with outside engagements) at Chicago's Century of Progress. Thereafter it was all gravy: movies, contracts, $1,000-a-day appearances at Atlantic City's Steel Pier, $2,500-a-week unveilings at Manhattan's Paradise Restaurant...
According to Cinema & Radio Comic Lew Lehr, a German refugee named Meyer, never in the U. S. before, was met at a Manhattan pier by ship news reporters. Said he,right off the bat: "How happy I am a-a-awrk to be at last in your beautiful America sque-e-e-e, to live in peace and freedom bukabukabuk without fear of concentration camps ow-o-o-o-ow, to raise my children to know the full meaning of mental and physical liberty kre-e-e-sh, I can hardly wait to set foot on your happy shores...
...scholars debarked in Manhattan (having had traveling expenses paid by the Rhodes fund), a Swarthmore reception committee met them at the pier, whisked them off to Swarthmore's campus, where they were fed, bedded in dormitories. The Association of American Rhodes Scholars (Rhodes alumni) promptly began to raise money to help them continue their education in the U. S. (Rhodes scholarships are good only at Oxford). Meanwhile Dr. Aydelotte asked U. S. universities whether they cared to give scholarships to his disappointed scholars...
From Chicago's Navy Pier reliefers scraped 1,170,000 gobs...