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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both Meyer and Deterding are in their middle sixties. Meyer's ancestors were Germans. Deterding's father was a Dutch sea captain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Meyer v. Deterding | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...Bridgeman revealed that Oath Swearer Collard would be compulsorily retired as "unfit for high command,"* whereas the two officers convicted of technical misconduct in complaining against him will receive fresh commands at sea, "as soon as vacancies appear." A fresh sensation stirred when one of the officers slated for reinstatement, Commander H. M. Daniel, abruptly resigned from the Royal Navy, last week, and joined the staff of the newspaper which has been loudest in his defense, the Daily Mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Apr. 30, 1928 | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...According to Mr. Heilner, he exposed himself to these much-maligned creatures repeatedly without their showing the least interest in him as a possible article of diet. It is to be feared, however, that even before such evidence the popular mind will cling to its delusion. Generations of South Sea Island movies in which a struggle between the hero and a shark is a prominent feature cannot but have their effect, and few frequenters of our bathing beaches will feel inclined to imitate Mr. Heilner's experiments if anything resembling a shark should appear off the shore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FISH FOOD | 4/27/1928 | See Source »

...newly constructed 27-foot speed launch "Red Top," destined to be the flagship for Coach E. J. Brown '96, has been lost at sea, it was reported yesterday. The powerboat left Greenport, Long Island, early last Saturday morning to make the voyage to Cambridge. It was piloted by two men, one of them the designer of the craft, and was expected to complete the run by Monday afternoon. After passing through the Cape Cod canal, however, the "Red Top" and its crew disappeared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW CREW LAUNCH IS LOST AT SEA EN ROUTE TO BOSTON | 4/25/1928 | See Source »

When Nathan and Lewis and Mencken put to sea in their pea-green boat there was room for only three. And so Upton Sinclair was left on the beach while the Great Emancipators set forth for New York or heaven. Boston is near the shore, though, and soon the first literary travelling man found himself in the old Back Bay Station. Ever since the porter dropped his luggage in Copley Square, ever since the moment when the man's eyes flooded as he said: "Home, thank God" there has been a Bostonian flavor, even occasionally a Cantabrigian tang...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UPTON, READ DOWN | 4/25/1928 | See Source »

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