Word: ship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that it would even begin to debate schedules before the closing of the special session. Yet Senators, unmindful or unworried, last week made little tariff progress, went instead down two attractive bypaths. One bypath was the issue of Philippine Independence (see p. 17). Another was the issue of censor ship, by U. S. Customs officials, of allegedly obscene books imported to U. S. shores...
...William Baldwin Shearer, "AMERICAN, CHRISTIAN, PROTESTANT, NATIONALIST," the high-powered propagandist who is suing the Bethlehem, American Brown Boveri and Newport News shipbuilding companies for $257,655 back pay for alleged services in breaking up the naval arms conference at Geneva in 1927 and boosting the Jones-White Act (ship subsidies) last year (TIME, Sept. 2 et seq.}. Company officials had testified they did hire Shearer, in admitted folly. Now the Senators had to hear Shearer. Between his gusts of anger and invective they learned he had been a prizefight, cabaret and theatre promoter; an actor playing the heavy...
...Vatican's official organ, Osservatore Romano, published an editorial entitled: "Ship Ahoy!" Excerpt: "The Statue of Liberty might well be transformed into a statue of hope. . . . Glory...
Chicago and South Bend from three hours to two hours. Passengers had for their comfort observation cars with swivel chairs, smoking compartments, women's lounges, buffet kitchens. A quarter of a million passengers travel on it each month now, and factories ship a quarter of a million tons of goods by it monthly. With profits went further improvements. Last August employes with delight began burning all the company's wooden cars-because they had enough all steel rolling stock for their needs...
...Lawrence Ship Canal...