Word: skippers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week Skipper Herbert Hartley of the Leviathan, commercial commodore for all the people, resigned. He said he wanted a home ashore after 35 years at sea. He said he would go into the cotton business. To succeed him, the Shipping Board promoted Vice Commodore Harold A. Cun- ningham of the United States Lines, long captain of the S. S. George Washington, now of the Leviathan...
...just before the Leviathan was ready, Harold A. Cunningham was senior officer of the U. S. Lines and Herbert Hartley, having had the bad luck to run aground first the Manchuria and then the Mongolia of the American Line, was a skipper without a ship and with no great hopes of getting one. Last week, Mr. Hartley himself retold the "fluke" by which he became Commodore...
...choice, tangy naval skipper is Rear-Admiral Ernest Augustus Taylor, 52, blunt, peppery and retired into politics. As Commander of the battle cruiser Renown he carried Edward of Wales to Canada (1919) and to Australia and New Zealand (1920). Smart Americans have met Admiral Taylor in Manhattan as the guest of Art-Tycoon Otto Kahn...
Characteristically, Skipper Taylor concluded: "Great Caesar's anchors! . . . If we and the United States would only pull together . . . we could rule the world and enforce peace...
...morning ? mostly women who were bringing their small children on the annual outing of St. Mark's German Lutheran Church Sunday School ? felt the presence of this singular perfection. So did old Captain van Schaick who stood on his deck cocky and smiling, proud to be the skipper of one of the best excursion boats in New York Harbor. He took one little girl by the hand and let her tweak his moppish mustachios. The band was playing "Ein Feste Burg ist Unser Gott." A woman, the last of the 1,400 passengers, waving her hand kerchief...