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Atolls of Empire. Until World War II, history brushed by the Marshalls. Portuguese and Spanish sea dogs noted them in the 16th Century, quickly forgot them. In 1788 two British merchantmen, the Charlotte under Captain Thomas Gilbert and the Scarborough under Captain John Marshall, skirted and named for each other the Gilbert and Marshall atolls...
With the Times. By 1921 her husband was making $10,000 a year. The Vanderlips were neighbors; the children went to the Vanderlips' progressive school. From the porch of the house in Scarborough Louise "could look off across the Hudson deep into orange hills." Honeysuckle smothered the rickety porch railing. There were white birches in the yard, a ginkgo tree by the windows. But misfortune followed so relentlessly it might have been planned. Once the Japanese butler at the Vanderlips' swimming pool asked her: "Why your little boy, he lie at bottom of pool so long for?" Rodney...
Having paid a visit to the university's statue of his distinguished ancestor, Refugee John Harvard Baker, 9, direct descendant of Harvard's first big benefactor, broadcast disappointedly to his father in Scarborough, England: "He doesn't look like...
While waiting for the White House to reply, Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain, traveling incognito as "Mr. and Mrs. Ireland" to escape the curiosity of British crowds, journeyed to the annual Conservative Party Conference at Scarborough. There Government & Party Leader Chamberlain, in the course of delivering a speech which stressed British Rearmament and was wildly cheered, said: "Hitherto it has been assumed that the United States of America -the most powerful country in the world -would remain content with a frankly isolationist policy. But President Roosevelt has seen that if what he calls an epidemic of world lawlessness is allowed...
This editorial had been swallowed by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain before he spoke at Scarborough, and Premier Mussolini followed it by sending to London and Paris a note in which he stated that Berlin would have to be invited to make a fourth at the parley on Spanish affairs which Britain and France had sought to have composed of only themselves and Italy. Italian and German editors suppressed or delayed printing the Chicago speech until they could bracket it with news of the enthusiasm of Madrid and Moscow and of how the U. S. State Department has licensed Soviet...