Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day 20 miles off the China coast the U. S. liner President Hoover, with Dollar signs as big as billboards on her funnels, plowed towards Shanghai with 263 U. S. refugees aboard. Out of the sky three small bombs came crashing down on the ship, shell-shocking three passengers, wounding six of the crew, killing one, damaging hull and deck. Shanghai's Mayor 0. K. Yui promptly admitted Chinese responsibility, promised fullest redress: four bombers had mistaken the liner for a Japanese troopship. Washington immediately cabled Ambassador Johnson to make a vehement protest...
...fishermen. One look at the small arsenal in the boat, rifles, pistols, gas bombs, rounds of ammunition, and the suspicious local police rushed the refugees off to jail, suspected them of being a revolutionary expedition to Cuba's shores. This week Cuban authorities released them, arranged to ship them back to Great Inagua...
...Daniel Jazz and Jazz Suite. But the rewards of modern composers-$100 or so for an occasional orchestra or opera performance-are not great. Unlike Deems Taylor, who earns money by writing and radio work, unlike John Alden Carpenter, a Chicago businessman who made money in mill, railway & ship supplies, most of his life Gruenberg has been a poor musician with an occasional patron. One of these was Mrs. Alma Morgenthau Wiener, sister of the Secretary of the Treasury, whose financial arrangements with him got into the courts three years ago, when it became known that they had counted-unsuccessfully...
...crew for her latest Manhattan-bound voyage, seven of the crew developed high fever and nausea and were put ashore. On the high seas 24 more, including kitchen help and dining saloon stewards, took sick with identical symptoms. Twenty-four hours before the Hansa reached New York Harbor the ship's young chief surgeon, Dr. Helmuth Paul Otto Grieshaber was obliged to make up his mind on a point which involved medical ethics, maritime law and business expediency...
Since Feb. 1 certain ships entering New York Harbor are allowed "radio pratique." This is the privilege of proceeding directly to dock without necessity of anchoring off Quarantine for medical inspection of passengers and crew. All a ship surgeon need do is to wireless his line's Manhattan office, twelve to 24 hours before docking, certifying that no cases of dangerous contagious disease are aboard. This message is relayed to New York Harbor's quarantine station at Rosebank, Staten Island. Chief Quarantine Officer Dr. Charles Vivian Akin then allows the ship to pass directly up the harbor, thus...