Word: steamboated
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Because it is largely responsible for the safety of vessels at sea, the U. S. Bureau of Navigation & Steamboat Inspection has had to take its share of blame for the Morro Castle disaster.* Notably concerned by the Bureau's apparent inefficiency was President Roosevelt. Last week, as the first step in its reorganization, he drafted a famed seaman to take what the Bureau's Director Joseph B. Weaver called "the most important job of its kind in the world." The job: supervising inspector of the Bureau's 2nd District (New York, Philadelphia, Albany, New Haven...
...Spontaneous combustion was advanced tonight as a possible cause of the Morro Castle tragedy in a report by Dickerson N. Hoover, Assistant Director of the Steamboat Inspection Service, to Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper...
...trail of a prime clue when it found that Hauptmann's footprints corresponded with footprints left in the mud beside the Lindbergh home the night of the abduction. John Edgar Hoover, chief of the Division of Investigation, continued to steal thunder from his brother. Steamboat Inspector Dickerson Naylor Hoover, whose Mono Castle investigation was shoved off front pages by the Lindbergh case. Investigator Hoover declared he was looking for a woman and a "stoop-shouldered man" who might have been accomplices...
...failure of men and machinery in a marine disaster that had taken 127 lives. President Roosevelt at Hyde Park talked hopefully of new fireproof construction laws at the next Congress which would prevent a repetition of such a holocaust. And in Manhattan the Department of Commerce's Steamboat Inspection service tried to get at the cause and circumstances of the wreck by a week-long series of public hearings. What a shocked public wanted to know and what Morro Castle survivors could tell...
...years before anybody heard of Plymouth Rock. Memphis, the town that Andrew Jackson could have named after himself, but decided to stamp with the Greek derivation of an Egyptian word that meant "good abode." Memphis, where in 1865 1,450 Union prisoners were blown to bits with the steamboat Sultana in a maritime disaster surpassed only by the Titanic. Memphis, where in 1878 yellow fever took 200 lives a day, gutted the population. Memphis, whose homicide record usually tops that of every other city in the world. Memphis, bluff-built and brawling, perched at the points of three states, securely...