Word: southampton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrowhead of land between the rivers Test and Itchen six miles up the inlet called Southampton Water, the Port of Southampton points a great trap of docks, like a lobster's claw, toward the sea. With that claw in the past two decades Southampton has snapped up most of Britain's passenger ocean traffic, ended a 19th Century slump. For three centuries Southampton's too shallow basin, where King Canute may have spoken to the tide and whence the Pilgrims' Mayflower sailed, had lain nearly empty. Humiliated as a "decayed town," South ampton was further humiliated...
...Queen Victoria's time Southampton began to put out its claw in earnest. Dredges deepened the harbor. In 1892 the then London & South Western Railway took over the docks, so that by 1914 Southampton was No. 1 port of embarkation for Britain's armies. Last week Southamptonites, now eager for the title of world's No. 1 port, felt they were getting somewhere when King George came to open what Britain claims to be the world's biggest dry dock (1,200 ft. long by 135 ft. wide at the entrance...
Last week's was the first official royal visit to Southampton since Queen Victoria sailed in, nearly 50 years ago. On that occasion Victoria praised the plush carpet run out for her and the city fathers made the grievous social blunder of sending it to her as a souvenir. Last week a more tolerant sovereign was aboard the black steam yacht Victoria & Albert that slipped between green flats and gravel scarps up Southampton Water. It steamed past the claw, past the great moored ocean liners packed for the day with sightseers, past the Empress of Britain loaded with schoolchildren...
...Queen 'Mary a silver chalice in which were mixed several kinds of Empire wines. She spilled the mixed wines over the side, watched them spread oilily among float ing cables of flowers. Southamptonites cheered themselves hysterical. The royal family climbed briskly back into the Victoria & Albert, steamed down Southampton Water toward Cowes...
Neither to Southampton nor anywhere else went the hero of the Mitchell case, Lawyer Max Steuer. It was he who had persuaded the jury that Banker Mitchell's "dummy" stock sales had been perfectly legitimate, that the $666,666.67 which Mr. Mitchell had received from National City Co. was no taxable bonus but a loan, that his client was a financial martyr, not a tax slacker who had tried to defraud the Government of some $850,000. Well content, smart Lawyer Steuer was to be found at his office at No. 11 Broadway, working on more routine cases...