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...boat-landing of the Jeffrey Yacht Club in East Boston. Further out in the harbor the Friendship made four attempts to leave the water; then one of the crew of four stepped off onto a tug nearby. This time when the plane slid over the misty water the spray faded suddenly under her pontoons and the Friendship climbed up slowly in a curving line into the early morning. A man in a small boat, one of the few witnesses, shouted, "Hey. . . . They're off for England...
Already Will Hays, Chairman of the National Committee in 1920, has been ingulfed by the rising tide to graft, and the waters have even beat menacingly, if ineffectively at the feet of Secretary Mellon, while the spray has carried even as far as the Chairman of the present Committee William M. Butler. The only hope the G. O. P. heads can have is to prove that no men now of rank in the party as it now stands were involved in any of the ramifications of the Teapot Dome affair, and if this fails, their prospects of a third successive...
Hawaii is more than a paradise in tropic seas. The boom of surf on coral reef, the fiery image of volcanic spray on cloudless night sky, flower-garlanded brown bodies lure U. S. tourists. But those mountainous islands are one with the U. S. in creating wealth from soil and industry. In the capital city, Honolulu, is a Stock and Bond Exchange where the securities of the Philippine Archipeligo's sugar plantations, public utilities, railways and pineapple canners are bought and sold, and where, significantly, are listed the foreign stocks and bonds of Sumatran and Philippine companies financed...
...speedboat, plunging forward on its cushion of spray, carried His Highness Prince Louis II of Monaco, last week, across shimmering Winyah Bay, South Carolina, to Georgetown. For several days the Sovereign of Monaco had dwelt in complete incognito and obscurity (TIME, Jan. 23) at Hobcan Barony, the luxurious Carolina coast hunting lodge of Manhattan economist Bernard Mannes Baruch. As the speedboat slithered up to a pier at Georgetown, last week, Mr. Baruch and Prince Louis hailed an ancient Negro hackman who drove them to the station. There His Highness entrained for Manhattan, after buying a newspaper...
...band was playing "Ein Feste Burg ist Unser Gott." A woman, the last of the 1,400 passengers, waving her hand kerchief to someone on shore as if she had been going on a long journey, ran up the gangplank. There was a jangle of bells, a fountain of spray as the paddle wheels rolled the water; all the passengers cheered and laughed when the General Slocum backed into the East River...