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...rich grew as bored with Florida swamps as he had with undecorated trolley cars. So he bought up a million and a half acres of Florida, mud and all. Before he got through he had acquired 14 hotels, built roads, railroads, towns, schools, banks, telephone systems, and opened a steamship line to Havana...
Died. Eugene Edward O'Donnell, 50, president of Eastern Steamship Lines; of peritonitis; in Boston...
Britons learned last week how far gone was sick British shipping when famed old Cunard Steamship Co., Ltd. reported a $3,000,000 net loss for 1932, a $2,000,000 drop in North Atlantic traffic. Four days prior. Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain had prescribed a cure in the House of Commons: an "arrangement" between Cunard & White Star. He set it as a condition to government subsidies to help Cunard finish its giant ship No. 534, now an idle skeleton in a Scotch shipyard. Everybody knew White Star was suffering as badly as Cunard from...
...important of which, in New York, was attended by almost everyone from Rabbi Stephen S. Wise to Bishop Manning and Alfred E. Smith. Rabbis throughout the country announced a day of fasting and prayer. Wholesalers cancelled-thousands of dollars worth of orders. The Europa announced that at least 25 steamship cancellations were due to Nazi terrorism. Other German lines admitted as many but claimed that the banking moratorium-had had more than a little to do with it. French & British importers and steamship agents rubbed their hands...
...lower the door away. The Pope will pray while prelates sprinkle the aperture with holy water. Then all will enter, kissing the jambs as they pass. Thereafter the public may enter all through the year. Calendar, Audiences with Pius XI will become increasingly frequent through the year. Railway and steamship lines advertising Holy Year tours point out that scarcely a week will pass without the Pope taking part in some ceremony. Kings and queens and ex-monarchs will visit him. Easter Sunday he will pontificate in St. Peter's, perhaps bless the multitude from the loggia as no other...