Word: port
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London, including the 106-carat Koh-i-Nur diamond for Her Majesty to wear at the Paris Opera. Two Scotland Yardmen were deemed enough to guard the Crown jewels, plus 50 blue trunks and pieces of luggage, each lettered in gold, THE KING. Their Majesties left the channel port of Boulogne-sur-Mer by special train for Paris over a cleared track guarded by 50,000 French troops...
...Benjamin Cardozo was much alone after the death in 1929 of his devoted and retiring sister, Nellie. Last December his heart forced him to leave the bench. Last April he went to the home of State Supreme Court Judge Irving Lehman (brother of New York's Governor) at Port Chester, N. Y. On his last day there, flowers came from two other old friends: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt...
Flung into a melon market near the Central Police Station on the waterfront at Haifa, Palestine's chief port, an exploding bomb last week killed 14 Arabs. A riot developed. Blood-hungry Moslems, convinced that a Jew had hurled the missile, began to pummel and stone Jewish passersby. Shots were fired into the predominantly Arab crowd, increased the casualties to 21 Arabs killed, 92 wounded; six Jews killed, eleven wounded...
Died. Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, 68, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; of coronary thrombosis; at Port Chester...
...sales of each of the big three, the tobacco industry waits to see. With June sales totting up to the biggest total of any month in his company's history, President Chalkley went home last week to his one-acre place at Port Washington, Long Island, to enjoy a weekend's sailing in his 23-foot sloop, still trusting in partly the rum, partly the dwarf but mostly the price-the formula which so far has proved all that Philip Morris could desire...