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...sang The Star Spangled Banner. Postmaster General James A. Farley presented the Robert L. Hague trophy. Recipient was the crew of the swank Italian liner Conte di Savoia who, winning for the second time in three years, outdistanced last year's winner, a lifeboat crew from the oil-tanker W. C. Teagle, by nine seconds. In last place, far behind the representatives of a United Fruit steamer, a Norwegian-America liner and the Furness Bermuda Line's Queen of Bermuda, was the unfortunate lifeboat crew of the Normandie...
...progressive woolen manufacturer who expected to rear his eldest son in the family business. Son Torkild learned seamanship in sailing vessels, passed his examination for a master's ticket at 19, got his first command at 21. It was a sailing vessel and, more important, an oil tanker...
...bridge of a steam tanker Captain Rieber sailed into Texaco in 1905, the company having bought the vessel he commanded. For four years he sailed for Texaco, was brought ashore to superintend the conversion of a peach orchard in Bayonne, N. J. into a great Texaco terminal. Today such a job would probably be given to a trained engineer. At that time it was given to Captain Rieber because he had horse sense, a command of men and the driving force of a triple-expansion engine...
...Prosecutor. "I denounce you, Comrade Miguschenko," he cried. "You should have led a mutiny against the order to cut the tow line! You should have taken charge of the men, locked up the captain as an enemy of the proletariat, and led the crew to the rescue of the tanker...
...defense, the Court held, that Comrade Miguschenko, like most political advisers of Soviet sea captains, knew nothing of seamanship himself. The prosecutor next flayed the seamen for not mutinying anyhow to save the tanker: "We must abolish the outrageous behavior of some seamen who still cling to the disgusting traditions of Capitalist fleets!"-i. e. obedience to captain's orders...