Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Directing the maneuvers on shore was His Imperial Highness Admiral Prince Hiroyasu Fushimi, distant cousin of the Emperor. One day last week it was rumored that H. I. H. had slipped away to sea to take personal command of the last phase. Two days later the tail of a typhoon zigzagged across Japan, leaving 300 dead and more than $9,000,000 of damage, flailing a Japanese flotilla maneuvering off the east coast of Honshu, the Empire's largest island. The furious spiral of wind and water swept 27 officers & men off the destroyer Yugiri, 24 off the destroyer...
...back for a touchdown, he became exasperated, had the ball kicked off again. The Brunswick Hotel, baseball headquarters was near Boston University. Cochrane met the players who stayed there, decided it was a pleasant way to live. He joined the Saranac Lake team in 1923. Dover, in the Eastern Shore League, bought him and got rich by selling him to Portland, Ore. for $15,000. From Portland, Cochrane went to the Athletics. Experts generally considered him the spark plug of the team with which Connie Mack won the pennant three times...
That by no means completed the list of securities advertised by J. P. Morgan. In their desperate effort to shore up their cracking pyramid in 1930, the Van Sweringens scraped their strong boxes for such items as 196 shares of Long Lake Co.. 250 shares of Huron Fourth Co., a past-due note of Higbee Co. for $1,292,534, second mortgage bonds of Cleveland Terminals Building Co. now in default, a $2,595,399 subordinated note of Van Sweringen Corp, due last...
...raging night other ships heard it, wallowed about on their course. The Texaco tanker Reaper made for the stricken ship. So did United Fruiters Limon and Platano. So did City Service's Watertown. So did the Dixie's southbound sister Morgan ship El Occidente. From the shore the Coast Guard cutters Saukee and Carrabasset, with breeches buoy and Lyle guns, steamed for the Dixie. Help was at hand, if Captain Sundstrom could keep his ship from going to pieces before...
...candidate for Mayor WillB Hadley was no politician to stir apathetic Philadelphians to white heat. He was a master of figures, not words, a shy, frugal, philosophical man, whose chief joy was his 650-acre farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. If he was to have a political career he had to be dramatized. So he acquired a curious jack-of-all-political-trades named Samuel Davis Wilson. Mr. Wilson began issuing statements for Controller Hadley that made news: How city funds bought a barber's chair for City Solicitor Augustus Trask ("Dandy Gus) Ashton; how Coroner Schwarz...