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...sent up to Brooklyn Navy Yard with a bottle of Mississippi water which she smashed over the bow of the New Cruiser New Orleans (TIME, April 24, 1933). This week, from the balcony of the Boston Club, Queen "Coco" will watch R. E. ("Rube") Tipton, steamship agent, proceed down Canal Street on a papier-mâché throne at the head of the Rex Parade. In ermine cloak and rhinestones, she will rise and stand with outstretched arms as Rex rides past, drinking her health in champagne...
Having been convicted fortnight ago of criminal negligence in the burning of the T. E. L. Mono Castle, the defendants last week received the following sentences: Acting Captain William F. Warms, two years in jail; Chief Engineer Eben Starr Abbott, four years in jail; New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co., a fine of $10,000; its executive Vice President Henry E. Cabaud, a fine of $5,000, a suspended sentence of a year in jail...
...Conference in 1933. He is a close friend of Vice President Garner, a generous contributor to the National Democratic Committee's campaign funds. A Missourian by birth, he spent his youth in South America, selling railroad equipment and adding machines. Later he was promoted and operated a tramp steamship line, finally became interested in Texas power companies. The system he built up was shrewdly sold to Samuel Insull before 1929. Today he owns hotels, ice companies, Mexican power companies, does large-scale entertainment on his Anacacho Ranch at Spofford, Tex. Jowled, powerfully-built, 53, he is suspicious...
...Eastern Steamship Lines operate night boats between Boston and New York. At times, the rumour goes, these journeys are indeed pleasant, what with a dance orchestra on board, a bar near at hand, and that freedom of thought and natural disappearance of reticence which the sea air induces...
There is a law which requires boats to fly certain flags under certain circumstances, but a situation arose last Sunday night which annoyed the officials of the Eastern Steamship Line and perplexed the most astute sea lawyers. The situation, one of many perplexing situations which arose during the week-end, due, perhaps to the natural disappearance of reticence, perhaps to the fact that certain Dunster Funsters finished Mid-years on Wednesday, involved the appearance of an unknown and hitherto unnoted flag on the Atlantic coast, floating gracefully from the mast of Eastern's dignified Saint John...