Word: steamships
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that Harriman will concentrate more on his coastwise shipping, mayhap resume his railroad activities. (He is a director of the Union Pacific, of the Illinois Central, besides being chairman of the W. A. Harriman & Co., Inc., of the American Ship & Commerce Corp., of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Corp., of the United American Lines, Inc., of the Merchant Shipbuilding Corp., and director of the Guaranty Trust Co., of New York, of the Wells Fargo Co., of the American Railway Express Co., of the National Surety Co.) If he does so, he will be truly a transportation amphibian...
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...
Long acquainted with George Hiram and rather fond of him for his past courtesies, the Cunard Line last week announced a new kind of trip abroad, for him alone. Perhaps, for steamship companies are very understanding, a special trip for Mrs. G. H. will be thought up later. But for the present, her husband is invited to go to Scotland, stay at the best hotels, play any that he chooses of 48 golf courses (riding to and from the links by motor) and return in five weeks, all for a flat sum (unstated in the advertisement). The only extra expenditures...
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...