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...vane on the Delaware & Hudson Building in Albany, N. Y., is a miniature of Hendrick Hudson's good ship Half-Moon. Early one morning last week this vane stood very still. It was a fine calm morning, but the Hudson River at Albany was not calm. By the pier of the Albany Yacht Club, the river's grey-green surface had been transformed into dirty, bubbly whipped cream. A fleet of 133 little launches, each with an outboard motor attached, was milling about, racing its engines, darting hither and yon like a swarm of noisy water beetles. Finally...
...grey harbor waters, usually strident with ship whistles, were muffled to a low-breathing hush, which was broken heavily by a 21-gun salute from Governor's Island. At the French Line pier in Manhattan, La Tourville docked gingerly, took aboard great men in black clothes to stand, lost in their own thoughts, about the casket. On a mulberry-colored cushion rested the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh stood there, his shoulders drooped in memory of Le Bourget, Paris, 1927. At sharp noon a bugle shrilled. Fifteen wiry French sailors lifted the coffin...
...professes mortally to hate and fear alcohol and the Pope of Rome. With the young Heflin was Senator Tom Connally of Texas. Obviously befuddled by the Prohibition question, Junior Heflin gabbled convivially with ship newsgatherers until Senator Connally took him to his cabin and locked him in. Upon the pier Junior Heflin announced: "I want to see Al Smith. My father's got a bug. He's all wrong about Al Smith. . . . My old man will give me hell, but I can't be sticking by him all the time. . . . Papa is a two-gun man. . . ." Escaping...
...high Government officers returning from "official missions" abroad, the Treasury grants "free entry" through the customs barrier. "Free entry" luggage is passed without inspection at the pier. Many a Congressman during recesses of Congress goes to Panama (wet) for a vacation, pretending to make an official study of the Canal Zone, and thus becomes eligible for "free entry" on return...
Last week the Government-owned S. S. Cristobal brought back to Manhattan from Panama 23 junketing Congressmen and Senators. One of these was Representative William M. Morgan, of Newark, Ohio, merchant, farmer, implacable prohibitor. On the pier Customs Inspector L. E. Crawford began to go through the Morgan handbaggage. Thereafter Inspector Crawford gave this version of events...