Word: ship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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American passengers on the British Aquitania that they might be sunk without warning-as travelers on a convoyed belligerent ship-that the U. S. Government could take no responsibility for their safety. Behind these gathering events, crowding arguments, confusing maneuvers that made up the Great Debate on U. S. neutrality, every U. S. citizen last week could feel, if he could not see, the vital, life-&-death issue: peace or war. To the great oratorical fugue about to start in the Capitol, never had there been a more unanimously attentive audience. The man who will play the counterpoint in that...
...struck her just abaft amidships on the port side. Then, said Mr. Cudahy, she "was struck again, wrecking the engine room, by a projectile projected through the air." Mr. Kennedy's report said: "No witness heard a shell in the air; no witness heard a shell strike the ship ... no splash of the projectile was seen." But (according to one quartermaster): "The submarine conning tower [unmarked] broke surface about 800 yards on the port quarter. ... A gun or explosive signal was fired. . . . The smoke from this discharge blew down over the Athenia and a distinct smell of cordite...
...Canada also scrambled aboard last week, requested King George VI to proclaim that "a state of war exists between Canada and Germany"-which he promptly did. For the time being, Canada will participate in three ways: ship munitions to England, feed airmen into the Royal Air Force, defend herself. The last of these she was pitifully unprepared...
...Brooklyn high-school stenography teacher, who had an adventure to report to her pupils when she faced them bright & early one morning this week. Having spent the summer traveling alone in Iran and Iraq, Miss Scheh arrived in Italy with a return steamship ticket and a flat purse. Her ship developed "engine trouble," failed to sail. So did other ships to which the Italian Line transferred her. Unable to get either passage or refund from the Italian Line, she hurried to Havre and laid siege to the U. S. Lines office. After ten hours, company officials surrendered, signed on Miss...
...Rhodes scholars prepared to board ship for England and Oxford, Swarthmore's President Frank Aydelotte, U. S. secretary for the scholarships, suddenly notified them to cancel their reservations, announced that the Rhodes trustees had suspended the scholarships for the war's duration. The 64 Rhodesmen al ready at Oxford on the 1937 and 1938 scholarships were sent home. Dr. Ayde lotte said he would try to get his Rhodes-men scholarships or teaching jobs in the U. S., that at war's end their Rhodes scholarships would still be good...