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...Aboard the S.S. Champlain on his first transatlantic trip, 11-year-old Prince Varanand of Siam enjoyed his first taste of spaghetti so much that he overate and was ill. Thereafter he continued to worry his fellow passengers by repeatedly stuffing spaghetti and losing it until he landed in Manhattan. Traveling on a diplomatic passport, he entrained for Washington, where he will go to school...
...after Congress had, in his absence, flouted his wishes by overriding his pension veto, by taxing Philippine coconut oil, by threatening to remonetize silver (see p. 14), by extracting teeth from the Stock Exchange bill. When Franklin Roosevelt-after a long conference with General Johnson and NRA Counsel Richberg aboard his train coming from Miami-drew into Washington's Union Station, he was surprised to hear the stentorian trumpets of the Marine Band playing "Happy Days Are Here Again" and William Woodwin's "The Franklin D. Roosevelt March," to see the smiling faces of 200 eager Representatives...
...jail doctor, was given a health examination and pronounced able to travel. The last appeal of his attorneys was turned down. At 6 one evening six Turkish guards took him from the House of Detention and drove him down to the waterfront in a taxi. Resigned, he went aboard the small steamer Adana and waved good-by to his lawyers on the wharf, reassuring them that they would be paid for their services. During the night the steamer crossed the Sea of Marmora to the Asiatic port of Panderma where, still guarded by six Turks, he entrained for Smyrna...
...months in the - 20°F wilderness of the Arctic Ocean north of Bering Strait, while a semicircle of rescuers hovered from Cape Van Karem, Siberia, to Alaska. Last month a rescue plane swooped onto the ice pack, loaded the Chelyuskin's ten women and two babies aboard, got back safely to Cape Wellen, Siberia. Since then the ice pack, twisted by Arctic currents, hammered by icebergs, has begun piling in on itself. It heaved the camp kitchen into splinters, erupted the surface of the improvised landing field. A loose block of ice nudged the pack's edge...
...Aboard S. S. Exilona, April 19--Samuel Insull sailed for Casablanca, Morocco, at 8.40 P. M. tonight aboard this American freighter, carrying him back to America for trial on charges of fraud...