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...thing remained an Incident, if only because it was the first British vessel ever sunk by U.S. rumchasers...
Article 2 of the Anglo-American rum treaty declares that the U.S. rights of search and seizure of British vessels "shall not be exercised at a greater distance from the coast of the U.S. . . . than can be traversed in one hour by the vessel suspected.'' Common practice has made this treaty-line twelve miles offshore...
...submarine 529 lay prostrate on, its belly. Within, its crew perspired and waited. Divers descended, hoses were screwed to newly installed valves in the submarine's side, cool air invaded the sunken fish. Soon, afterward the divers attached air hoses to the ballast tanks of the vessel; then, cocking a snook through the heavy glass ports at those within, the divers rose to the surface. Great eddies began to surge from the ballast tanks as the water was forced out. Ten minutes later the submarine gave a lurch and floated aloft...
...cool against a cloud. ¶ In the midst of the general good feeling, the fatherly New York Times published a report that the Hero's mother, Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh, returning from Turkey aboard the S. S. President Wilson, was to marry Capt. F. A. Anderson of that vessel. Soon it was discovered, however, that Capt. Anderson already possessed a wife of 39 years standing...
...option on part of the bank's stock, refused to exercise the option when he saw the actual condition of the bank. Perhaps Dr. Giannini erred in allowing himself to become in any way associated with a sinking ship, but he was not the man who ran the vessel on the rocks...