Word: walcott
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crosby, Stanley Cunningham, A. L. Devens, F. L. Dabney, Lyman Delano, W. L. Ellwell, J. M. Forbes, Reginald Fincke, R. M. Faxon, Mitchell Gratwick, J. L. Grandin, James Jackson, Delmar Leighton, Matthew Luce, A. D. Hill, Robert Homans, A. M. Orr, P. B. Swett, Fritz Talbot, Charles Walcott, S. P. Ware, Joseph Warren, F. O. White, and W. B. Wood...
...Cunningham '32, is chairman of the Freshman Jubilee Committee, and Eustace Walcott '32 is sub-chairman. Their assistants are C. F. Bound '32, decorations; J. L. Grandin '32, refreshments; A. W. Patterson '32, invitations and tickets; and P. M. Whitman '32, music...
...claimed the I'm Alone was in Body-of-Water Two (10.8 miles off shore) when picked up and pursued by the cutter Walcott. Captain John Thomas Randall of the I'm Alone insisted he was in Body-of-Water Three (14 to 15 miles off shore) when spoken. The Treasury justified its pursuit as "hot and continuous" under the Tariff Act. Great Britain held that such pursuit could only begin within territorial waters (Body-of-Water One), and could not reasonably extend beyond Body-of- Water...
...distance off the Louisiana coast near "Sixty Deep." Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador, called at the State Department for information, predicted this Incident might become "serious." Rear Admiral Frederick C. Billard, Coast Guard Commandant, called the I'm Alone a "notorious rumrunner" and explained that the U.S. cutter Walcott had ordered the 150-ton two-master to halt for inspection off Trinity Shoals. The Walcott had fired a three-pounder through the I'm Alone's rigging but instead of stopping she had turned and fled, her powerful Diesel engines boosting her out of reach...
...Alone's, skipper, Captain John T. Randell, 49, a Canadian, told his story in New Orleans. Loaded with 2,800 cases of "assorted liquor," his schooner, he said, was "anchored 14½ to 15 miles offshore" when approached by the Walcott. He did not heave to because he did not think the U.S. had jurisdiction. His ship, he figured, went down 225 miles offshore in a heavy sea under 120 U.S. shots. The drowned negro, one Leon Mainjoy, was a French citizen...