Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pardons to six men and one woman for participation in the Anti-Nazi demonstration in Harvard Square at the Harvard Commencement last June, 11 other persons were being found guilty by a jury in the Suffolk Superior Court of inciting a riot at the Charleston Yard against the German ship Karlsruhe stopping there...
...System to supply up to $25,000,000 of quick credit to resist pressure against the belga. From Washington the Treasury would neither affirm nor deny that a "foreign loan" had been made to Belgium, indicated that if it were so the Bank of Belgium would eventually have to ship gold to cover as much of the quick credit as was used...
Once soon after the U.S. entered the War, Skipper Claret was taking the Minnehaha to Britain with a heavy cargo of TNT. Several days out of New York he received a radiogram from the U.S. Navy Department to the effect that a bomb hidden aboard his ship was timed to explode that very noon. Captain Claret ordered the crew to make a search drill, did not tell them why. When they failed to find anything, he stood anxiously on the bridge, waited watch in hand. Noon came & went. Nothing happened. Claret had about decided that it was a false alarm...
...long. One day in September 1917 Captain Claret was standing on the bridge of the Minnehaha when a German submarine drilled her with a torpedo off the Head of Kinsale. Within two minutes the ship literally sank beneath Claret's feet and left him kicking in the water. Forty-three lives were lost. Captain Claret and more than 100 others floated more than an hour before a British patrol boat sighted them. The skipper of the patrol boat recognized the Minnehaha's captain in the water, boomed out: "I say, is that you, Claret...
...Giggles" Gates got his nickname from his cheery, infectious laugh. Equally famed was his powerful voice. He never used a megaphone when docking his ship, and many a sailor used to say no ship needed a foghorn so long as "Tommy" Gates was on the bridge. Sociable, he was known to many & many a passenger as a pipe-smoking, teetotaling skipper who danced two hours every night of clear weather. During the War he saved the lives of 1,800 troops and seamen by beaching the original Minnewaska on the Island of Crete after she had struck a mine...