Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty-four hours after the order was issued, 14 Spanish priests were en route to Spain forcibly deported from Vera Cruz aboard the steamship Espagne. Despatches reported that three Irish priests were seized at Mexico City, but that most of those arrested were Spanish. Sister Margaret Semple, a U. S. citizen, principal of the Roman Catholic Visitation Academy for girls at Mexico City, formally complained to Ambassador Sheffield and declared that the Mexican authorities have warned her that she must cease her educational activities or expect to be deported immediately...
Spuming, plunging, bumping dolphins, the steamship Conte Biancamano rushed across the stormy Mediterranean last week with His Eminence Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York priest of Sancta Maria in Via - Rome. Cardinal Hayes had with him his entourage and the last U. S. contingent of Holy Year pilgrims, for on Christmas Eve the Holy Doors close on this year at jubilee. For that ceremony they arrived in Naples in good time but they reached Rome late by one day to attend the resplendent, the rare Public (Extraordinary Consistory at which five cardinals received their red hats; and late...
...route to France aboard the little steamship Sphynx, General Maurice Sarrail, the recalled French High Commander to Syria (TIME, Nov. 9), employed a graceful and evasive "formula" for sidestepping ail questions regarding his much criticized bombardment of Damascus. Said he to correspondents who boarded the Sphynx at Alexandria, "Surely you need not question me, gentlemen. Let the Sphynx answer. Look around the boat and you will find many sources of truth...
Freight Handlers. By vote of 6 to 1, the convention voted to suspend from the Federation the union of railway and steamship clerks, freight handlers, express and station employees unless it should abandon claims to jurisdiction over drivers and chauffeurs, etc., who belong to another union. The delegates of the suspended union, which has 160,000 members, threatened that their union would withdraw from the Federation rather than yield...
...Dalton was once a "poor underpaid boy on Cleveland's ore docks." Now he is manager of Pickands, Mather & Co., a large ore and shipping concern, and President of the Interstate Steamship Co., operators of the second largest fleet on the Great Lakes. He is an engineer familiar with shipping problems and also a competent business man. Cleveland calls him "the silent iron-king...