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Sometimes the God-fearing men of Nantucket were unable to get over the sight of the Pacific and its paradisial isles. The old records contain stories of men who left their ships and settled down with native women. Once, in 1824, a whole shipload of men mutinied, killed the officers of the Globe, and set up a short-lived kingdom on Mili Island...
Liberia, about the size of Mississippi, was founded in 1822 by the do-gooding American Colonization Society, which swapped a shipload of trinkets for 1,000 acres of jungle on which to relocate U.S. slaves. Liberia's capital, Monrovia, is named for President James Monroe; its constitution is based on that of the U.S. Population: 20,000 Christian descendants of the former slaves, who run the show; 1,500,000 jungle pagans, some of whom were not subdued until 1936. Resources: gold, iron ore, (Firestone) rubber...
...years guidebooks to Europe have warned travelers to Naples to keep a firm hand on their luggage and an eye peeled for pickpockets. In the openly larcenous days of World War II, a pack of local thieves once made off with a whole shipload of sugar-ship & all. Last spring when Achille Lauro, Naples' wealthiest shipowner, took office as mayor, he promised to clean up the permanent Neapolitan crime wave. "We must operate like surgeons," he told his police force, who promptly went to work rounding up hundreds of pickpockets. Plainclothesmen roamed the streets in squads of three...
...open to charges of interference. One push in the other direction, appreciated by Italians: his efforts to get the terms of the Italian peace treaty relaxed. An indefatigable salesman for the U.S., Dunn is always on hand to dedicate a new bridge built by ECA funds, to present a shipload of toys from the American Legion, or a snow plow from the citizens of Jersey City to an Alpine village...
Democrats in the audience began walking out quietly while MacArthur was midway in his speech. Next morning, Fair Dealing Congressman Hugh Mitchell called MacArthur a "demagogue," and refused to show up for a MacArthur ceremony welcoming a shipload of veterans home from Korea. A Washington Democratic National committeeman and the Truman-appointed U.S. collector of customs resigned in protest from Greater Seattle, Inc., the nonpartisan civic group which invited MacArthur to inaugurate Seattle's centennial show...