Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President of the Emergency Fleet Corporation-Admiral Leigh C. Palmer. The change has converted the Shipping Board from a body of ship operators, to a body engaged in the general regulation of ocean-borne commerce. It is now principally a sort of Interstate Commerce Commission of the sea. And the smiling T. V. O'Connor leads it in its role...
...Administration, now head of a League commission to untangle the 'difficulties which have arisen over the port of Memel, arrived at Memel with the members of the commission to study the problem on the spot. Both Lithuania and Poland have claims to the port, which is an important sea outlet to both nations...
...THOUSAND AND FIRST NIGHT?Grant Overton?Doran ($2.00). A young aviator, Evan Lloyd, who drops out of the sky at sunset?Cynthia Fanning, who is taking care of her invalid grandfather, the ex-sea captain Magellan Fanning, in St. Martin's Manor, the home on the end of Long Island that has belonged to the Fannings since the reign of King Charles II?the memory of a shipwreck that occurred more than ten years before the story begins?a rash debt undischarged?the narration of the tragic love story of another Cynthia Fanning and young Pedro da Gama that...
...stories which one has read become a most intimate part of one's nature. People enjoy stories chiefly because they can make themselves the heroes; one's imagination permits one to undergo every hardship, every triumph. The result is that no one can read 'The Toilers of the Sea" without reflecting some of the grandeur of soul of the hero, nor "Man and Superman" without acquiring some of the leading man's delightful emotional immunity...
...council of the vilayet*; of Constantinople appointed a commission to rename certain villages and districts which have a Greek or Byzantine name. In each case a Turkish equivalent must be found; in the case of San Stefano (on the Sea of Marmora near Constantinople), however, a new name must be found as it "savors of an alien faith...