Word: sails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With an act of diplomacy all too typical of its previous vacillations, the American government has given orders for the entire Atlantic fleet to sail for the Pacific and join the American vessels already there. The entire American navy will stortly be conducting operations within a short distance of the Sino-Japanese imbroglio. Such a situation is almost bound to be interpreted as a practical sequel to the policy outlined in Secretary Stimson's note of Feb. 24 to Senator Horah...
...risen. Most of the inhabitants were heartily glad to see the soldiers. By nightfall troops were playing hide and seek in the mountains with the last of the revolutionists. In Barcelona the government chartered the liner Buenos Aires, loaded it with political prisoners and ordered the captain to sail without any destination until he received further orders by wireless...
...Aeroplane Club, 1908; took part in early motor drive to Brighton; owner of cars since 1897; Controller of the ist Aerial Meeting (England) at Doncaster; entered a monoplane constructed by himself . . . holds the silver and bronze medals of Royal Humane Society; Lloyd's silver medal for lifesaving; sailed round the world four times under sail, 1884-88 . . . mentioned in Government despatches, 1897, for connecting R. I. M. S. Warren Hastings with a rope to the shore, over which 1,200 troops were landed; made an hon. member for life of the mess of the ist Battery King...
...lifetime in scientific research now find themselves on the street without a job." One of the American Museum's staff who did not let the museum's comparative poverty stall him was Harold Elmer Anthony, curator of mammals. He and Gilbert Ottley found enough money to sail last week for a two-month trip to Venezuela, to hunt "everything that lives" for his department...
...from the four corners of the earth. As in many another municipal transaction, Tammany Hall manages to get a crooked finger into dock-leasing. Last week New Yorkers learned why travelers must go all the way to the Army base pier at the foot of 58th Street, Brooklyn, to sail on the fastest transatlantic vessels in the world-the North German Lloyd's Bremen and Europa* Strapping big Heinrich Schuengel, who is for N. G. L. what humorous little Sir Thomas Ashley Sparks is for Cunard- resident U. S. director-had a chance to air his grievance before Counsel...