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Died. Frank H. Hannigan, 57, head of Cunard White Star's ecclesiastical department; after a brief illness; in Caldwell, N. J. He encouraged transatlantic steamship traffic by promoting yearly pilgrimages to Croagh Patrick, the holy mountain of St. Patrick in Ireland...
Charged with "wilful negligence" were the vessel's Acting Captain William F. Warms and Chief Engineer Eben Starr Abbott. Charged with "fraud, neglect and connivance in violation of law" was Executive Vice President Henry E. Cabaud of New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co.. which chartered the Morro Castle from its parent company, Atlantic. Gulf & West Indies Steamship Lines (Agwi). Likewise indicted was the company itself, known to the trade as the Ward Line. Released on $2,500 bail each, the individual defendants face a maximum penalty of 10 years' imprisonment, $10,000 fine...
...COLONEL LINDBERG ARRIVING ON DAMSTERDYK" This telegram, received in a Liverpool shipping office, caused clerks, sailors, housewives and steamship officials to drop their work, swarm over the docks, prepare a rousing welcome for Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. In the midst of a great din the Dutch freighter Damsterdyk tied up. Down the gangplank, blinking behind heavy spectacles, marched Colonel Irving Augustus Isaac Lindberg, High Commissioner of Nicaragua, Collector-General of Customs. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, whose biggest duty is to appease Nicaragua's foreign bondholders. Vastly disgruntled, the crowd drifted away...
Several times in recent years a trip to Bermuda has been proposed. This year, both steamship companies and hotels have made offers to the Clubs for a joint trip to Bermuda and Nassau. It is undecided yet whether the trip will be made...
...course, the Government was in business long before two college presidents and a young lawyer held the first directors meeting of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The Government ran stores in army posts that sold goods to civilians; it ran barge lines on its waterways; it ran steamship lines; it sold water from its irrigation projects; it sold surplus war materials; it speculated in cotton and grains. Yet most of these government excursions into private enterprise were pretty clearly either emergency measures or operations incidental to some other Federal function...