Word: portes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stockbrokers of Throgmorton Street, the officers of the Cairo City relayed a rumor extremely offensive to touchy Italian honor, to wit: "Recently an Italian ship which failed on entering Alexandria to salute British warships was forced to return to the sea and re-enter the port with the proper salute." If British admirals in non-British ports were thus humiliating Italian sea captains last week in the manner of traffic policemen, then Europe was indeed at the mercy of an incident...
...passes 90% of the U. S. annual $100,000,000 trade with Italy, the Export Managers Club lunched in high dudgeon last week, resolved to trade & traffic with Italy to the best of their ability. Next that potent nexus of big shippers, railroads and steamship companies, the Conference of Port Development of the City of New York Inc. resolved that the President's warnings are "hasty and ill-advised," a "serious blow" to U. S. Commerce & Recovery. After becoming so heated that it referred to the President as "the daring young man on the international trapeze," the Conference butted...
...dark-skinned youngster drove through the streets of Alexandria to the quayside where he boarded the British light cruiser Devonshire. With the crew lining the rails at attention, the Devonshire snaked its way through the great armada of British warships jamming Alexandria harbor, made the 124-mile run to Port Said. There the crew manned ship again; a royal salute was fired; the little prince went down the captain's gangway to board the P. & 0. liner Strathaird for Britain and the life of a British schoolboy...
over a sandbar near North Truro which stove in her hull but did not hold her fast. Rudderless, slowly filling, "she drifted a dreary wreck," while her crew of 27 fishermen fought to get her to port...
...knows so much about what Italy's real powers to resist economic sanctions may be, and the Professor is no cloistered scholar. Captured and clapped into a German prison camp during the Great War, he went home to run the Chamber of Commerce in Italy's great port of Genoa, was executive boss of the Dictatorship's control office for Industry when II Duce summoned him last spring. The odd thing about what Guarneri had to say last week as to Italy's position if she must face economic sanctions (see p. 23) was that...