Word: runners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Customs officials found that she had been employed as a?rum runner. Her supercargo sold his alcoholic wars on rum row and decamped with the proceeds. For three weeks the Yankton had waited his return. Then with fuel and food exhausted she came into port and surrendered to her fate. She was offered at auction to pay the wages of the crew...
They sailed northward, 20 Chinese, a skipper, and a crew of four? two white, two black. They reached "Rum Row" off New York. They waited several days. There was no opportunity to reach the shore undetected. A woman came out in a rum runner's launch. She went to the skipper's cabin. An interval. The skipper and the woman lowered the schooner's dory and departed. The ship's papers, the money the Chinese had paid were gone...
...without a good measure of hope for success. The agreement to publish the terms of treaties does not preclude the use of diplomatic feelers and without the latter a nation may only too easily make itself ridiculous. If the proposal should be accepted and the hazards of the rum-runner increased by nine miles of water, the prohibitionists would be justified in claiming a large feather for their...
Here, according to every accepted standard, is an extraordinary incident. A youth two years under twenty, lacking the specialized training which clips seconds from the work of college sprinters, runs into a world's record and just misses breaking it. He is perhaps the fastest runner in the world. Yet even the metropolitan dailies ignored their opportunity and buried the feat among the tombstones of the Sunday sporting section...
Died. Horace M. Kilborn, 57, retired senior Vice President of the National City Bank of New York, of heart disease in Manhattan. He rose from a bank runner to a posi-tion in which he was one of the leading bankers in the group who brought relief to the money market in 1907. In one of the Liberty Loan campaigns he was said to have raised $10,000,000 in 36 hours...