Word: portes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Port Arthur, Tex., detectives picked up a German, sent him to Memphis, Tenn. Charge: larceny of $1,500 from Clarence Saunders, originator and onetime owner of Piggly Wiggly Stores. No novelty was the loss of a few hundred dollars to Clarence Saunders. In 1923, with "a bag of gold estimated at $4,000,000, he hired a special train, descended on Manhattan to trap the "Wall Street gamblers" who were selling Piggly Wiggly short. No sooner had he skyrocketed his stock from $40 to $150 than the Exchange discovered his corner, barred Piggly Wiggly, ruined Speculator Saunders. With...
...passengers at $250 to $390. Last week, laden to the gunwales with 500 "arm-chair adventurers" and well started on its 7,000-mile, 26-day itinerary, the Victoria sailed from Nome for the dash to the ice pack's fringe. Later the ship will call at a Siberian port by special permission of the Soviet Government...
Such up-to-date contrivances are by no means common in U. S. schools. But last week parents, teachers and school officials could visualize them as they beheld in Manhattan's big Port Authority Commerce Building an exposition of school-wares. Called Schoolmart and paired with a routine conference of pedagogs labeled Schoolview, the exposition was sponsored by the National Association of Public School Business Officials. Teachers College, New York University's School of Education and numerous high-sounding committees. This week 500 members of N. A. P. S. B. O. were to gather at Schoolmart for their...
...plenty of action before the story is over. In dull spells they indulge in philosophical speculation, with religion a favorite topic. When, however, a hurricane comes up, tearing No. 167 loose from her moorings, casting her adrift amid mountainous seas, there is no time for talk. Whether she makes port or not is not told. It is sufficient that the tale ends in a burst of action and heroism...
...except in Latin America were the wild events in 1915 when Haiti's black President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam had 200 political prisoners bayoneted in jail, took refuge in the French Legation and was dragged out and murdered by a mob. Two hours later the U.S. Marines landed at Port-au-Prince and began forcibly soothing everybody...