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Followed a whispered conversation between Capt. Urbina and his swarthy friends. They bowed to Capt. Morris, and slipped down the gangplank again. Almost immediately the Dutch calm of Willemstad was punctuated with shots, shouts and horrid outcry. Dark figures rushed along the waterfront to little Fort Amsterdam. Half an hour later Capt. Urbina, flushed, triumphant, returned to the S. S. Maracaibo with 400 followers and the disheveled Governor of Curaçao, His Excellency, Mr. L. A. Fruytier, captured in bed, and Willemstad's Chief of Police. Pressing an enormous pistol against Capt. Morris's abdomen, Rebel Urbina ordered...
Sharp official eyes search the gay streets of the Greek quarter of Tarpon Springs, Fla. Alien sponge divers (TIME, Jan. 21) move aside, shift their glance away. Along the waterfront, among the gaudy antique boats', has gone the whispered warning: U. S. Immigration inspectors are about the town to check smuggling of aliens. Every stranger is a suspect...
...Significance. The story of two generations of Charleston "waterfront niggers" scheming and suffering to give the third generation a "chance" follows Mamba through naive cajoling relationship with "her white folks" follows Hagar through backsplitting labor in the phosphate mines; ends with Lissa scoring triumph at the opera. The long process is marked off by many a high moment of comedy, tragedy, melodrama. Mamba's "my white folks" play considerable part in the book, but are important and interesting only as protectors to Mamba's daughters. The story loses force by their presence, but is the more valuable as sociology...
...Angeles (school and park site planning, highways ahead of needs); Milwaukee (city employment offices); Chicago (parked waterfront); Auburn, N. Y. (wiping out diphtheria by general toxin-antitoxin immunization); Detroit (best type school buildings); Gary. Ind. (work-study-play method of education); Dallas (adult education); Cleveland (adult education; education against venereal disease; teaching parents how to raise children); Washington (education against venereal disease); Boston (district health centres); St. Louis (plenty of hospital beds); San Francisco (prevention, treatment & instruction of hard of hearing); Winnetka, Ill. (progressive education...
Poorest of South American republics, the country that gave the world the "Panama" hat gave the U.S. President-Elect a handsome reception. Motorboats swarmed out to surround and escort the Cleveland to her mooring. Some 50,000 of the populace packed the waterfront...