Word: southampton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tossing wastes of the Atlantic Ocean. Both big flying boats were maintaining constant radio contact with British stations in Newfoundland and Ireland and Pan American bases in New Brunswick and New York. Few hours later the flights ended uneventfully. The Caledonia landed at Foynes in Ireland, continued to Southampton. The Clipper III landed at Botwood, Newfoundland, continued to Port Washington...
...days later Sir John Reith, chief of British Broadcasting Corp., decided that he, too, would give the Basque children a treat. To the tent-city near Southampton where 2,000 of the refugees are being housed, he went with a radio van. When news came that Bilbao had fallen (see p. 20), Sir John, against the advice of the camp's Basque officials, decided to broadcast the bad news...
...Sandwich- To get to Royal St. George's Club in time for his first-round match, Brigadier General Alfred Cecil Critchley, London sports promoter, sailed from New York on the Normandie, took a speedboat to the dock at Southampton, chartered a plane, flew to the course, waved at the starter to identify himself, landed at a nearby airport, rushed up to the first tee. He arrived three minutes after the match had been awarded to his opponent by default...
...England, Laborites and Protestant churchmen had been surprised and irritated by Roman Catholics who suggested that the 4,000 youngsters arriving at Southampton from Bilbao should be placed in Catholic homes, on the ground that most Basques are Catholic. In the U. S. last week, a different Catholic reaction met the O'Day-Woolley-Shotwell project. The U. S. hierarchy and Catholic press have had trouble enough explaining away the alliance between the Catholic Basques and the Godless "Reds" of Madrid. Making a fuss over 500 young Basques in the U. S. would, said U. S. Catholics, curry favor...
...Southampton, England, last week arrived the first shipment of Basque refugees, 4,000 children on the steamer Habana, high-water mark in one of the greatest mass evacuations of children in history. Many of them carried their Sunday clothes in little bundles. They staged a healthy, yowling child-riot when forcibly washed, given haircuts. Next day in a tent city in which they had been installed the Basque children suddenly lost all bravado. A squadron of British planes on practice flight hammered overhead. Screaming in terror, the Basque children stampeded for their tents, holes in the ground, anywhere they could...