Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week was President Hoover's departure from Washington March 4. Immediately after Franklin Delano Roosevelt takes the oath, Citizen Hoover will be whisked to Manhattan by special train. There at 6 p. m. he will board the Panama Pacific Liner Pennsylvania, held seven hours for his convenience, and sail to Panama where he will stop for a week to try for giant sailfish before continuing to California on a Dollar Liner. With him will travel his son Allan, Citizens Arthur Mastick Hyde and Ray Lyman Wilbur, possibly Citizen Ogden Livingston Mills...
...treaty allows-three per year. In the U. S. Navy's mind, the "Black" fleet of Problem No. 14 that sweeps east this week from Hawaii to the mainland, represents no fleet but Japan's. U. S. sea-dogs frankly expect to see a real Japanese fleet sail the same course, some day, trying to strike the same blow on the Pacific coast. All plans for defense are predicated upon that possibility-including the presence of the Scouting Force west of the Panama Canal. Japan, rattling her sword in Manchuria as never before, is in strained relations with...
When the three Doukhobors arrived in Halifax they pretended to be pessimistic about their chances of saving Peter Verigin II. But just as the Montcalm was about to sail, a sheriff rushed aboard, served the captain with a writ. Peter Verigin II was taken ashore. This week Canadian immigration authorities were to appear in court, show cause for his detention...
...arguments to the Legislature. The coming regular legislative elections, which may violently split the majority party, will be in effect a plebiscite on H. R. 7233 by the islands' 13,000,000 inhabitants. Meanwhile, Senor Quezon, whom many Filipinos already hail as the islands' "Presidente," planned to sail for the U. S. and Washington in the spring to demand "immediate independence" from the Roosevelt administration. El Presidents Quezon is 54. Under H. R. 7233 he would not become the unborn Commonwealth's chief executive until...
...moving spirit in the Club of Odd Volumes, whose headquarters is a former stable on Beacon Hill. He has written three books on the Caribbean, owns many an odd volume, belongs to a dozen learned societies and most of Boston's swank clubs. He likes to sail and fish. He is the only member of the United Fruit directorate whose father was a member of the original Boston Fruit Co. which was formed in 1899. He was 65 last week...