Word: port
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told, was the return of the interned Republican fleet from Bizerte, Tunisia, the French protectorate, where it had fled in the closing days of the war. On this point the French gave in and General Franco's sailors sailed away with the fleet without bothering to pay even port charges...
Schemer von Papen was more success ful in putting the skids under the German Republic. One of the last of the Republic's Chancellors, he wanted to get back into the driver's seat. With Junker sup port, he helped persuade President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint Adolf Hitler Chancellor, believing naively that the Fiihrer would become a figurehead and that he, von Papen, as Vice Chancellor would be the real power in a "Barons' Cabinet." Only hitch came when the Nazis, once in power, took the bit in their teeth and ignored Driver von Papen...
...Tsingtao, North China's biggest and most beautiful port, reported a new Japanese version of the Open Door in China-open for Japanese to enter, for foreigners to get out. Non-Japanese ships, said the report, are now obliged to anchor far out in the harbor; are kept waiting, sometimes for 24 hours, for port papers; are charged exorbitant lighter rates; have to discharge their passengers under conditions which are always unpleasant, sometimes (on stormy days) dangerous. There is always a mysterious shortage of coolies when loading-time comes...
...Automotive Maintenance Show in the New York Port Authority Building, an oldtime garage man from Chicago, Ralph L. de Gayner, astonished dealers and jobbers by gunning out clean little landscapes in five minutes each. Gunner de Gayner never knew David Siqueiros, but he had the same inspiration about seven years ago, has been getting so good at his specialty (pictures of clipper ships) that several have been sold. "The artists still think it's cheese," said he, "but dealers sell it and that's the big thing. I wouldn't be caught dead with a brush...
...Western World of Bandon, Ore. appeared a notice: "Lost-At Port Orford beach, a hunk of right thumb with small piece of thumb nail attached. Finder please notify Ruth Tucker...