Word: port
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This morning a member of our family was talking to one of his customers who arrived yesterday in Montreal from England on a Canadian liner. He was told that the gentleman had himself seen the missing German liner Bremen towed into a British port (either north of England or in Scotland, but the latter probably correct) over two weeks ago with the name plates and a few other identifying features already removed...
...corporation may buy, sell or exchange bonds, securities, etc. of any belligerent state-ordinary commercial and go-day credits exempted. 8) No person in the U. S. may solicit or receive funds for any belligerent state named. 9) If the President believes a ship leaving a U. S. port is carrying men, arms or supplies to a belligerent warship, but has insufficient evidence to stop its departure, he shall require the shipmaster to give a bond in any amount on the condition that he will not deliver the men, arms or supplies to any warship. 10) If the President finds...
From these rigid wartime prohibitions, the Senate exempted only 1) the 20 other Latin-American republics, 2) shipping to nations bordering the U. S. via inland waters, 3) shipping by air and sea within the Western Hemisphere, to any port, of mail, persons, personal effects, and goods to be used exclusively by U. S. vessels. Penalty for violations of any major section of the bill was set at $50,000, five years in jail, or both...
Bluff and Bombers. Meanwhile, Dictator Stalin suddenly brought down Russia's fist upon Estonia. This prosperous little Baltic state flanks the sea approach to Leningrad, where the Red Navy is frozen up tight at least three months of each year, and its capital, Tallinn, is an ice-free port. On the pretext that the Estonian Government recently "allowed" an interned Polish submarine to chug out of Tallinn and become a commerce raider-actually it shot its way out, fired upon by harbor batteries (TIME, Oct. 2)-the Moscow press and radio have been violently attacking Estonia as "hostile...
...like that as soon as a German U-boat comes in sight! The captain of the Browning, to my great astonishment, obeyed my orders to save the crew of the Royal Sceptre, and also he respected my order not to make use of his radio until he should reach port...