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...Tower Building and overalled work men were beginning to clean out the Com mission's offices there. Commissioner Pound, aged 60, escorted Mrs. Miller, aged 49, to famed old St. John's Church, made her his second wife. He and his bride sped to New York, sailed for Scotland aboard the S. S. Transylvania. Declared Honeymooner Pound: " I've been working very hard these last few weeks.I'm tired and need a rest...
...Washington, Andrew Mellon's senior in rank, Henry Lewis Stimson, was so busy with despatches that he missed his train to New York; flew; sailed, as scheduled, for Italy aboard the S.S. Conte Grande. His trip was originally intended to be a vacation but President Hoover after re- ceiving the French reply, foresaw where his Secretary of State could be more useful abroad than in his high-ceiled Washington office.* On the Conte Grande a cabin near his B deck suite had been especially fitted out as an office for the Secretary of State who took with him Captain...
...Siberian village to which he was assigned was 7,300 miles distant. Guarded by a Cossack, he made the trip by rail, on foot, aboard barges, by horse-team, reindeer, dogs. Zenzinov planned to escape again when he had reached his destination, the six-house village of Russkoye Ustye, but when he got there found it was too isolated, too far from everywhere. "There were no relations with the outside world. Fish was the constant food all the year round. Bread was unobtainable. Traders did not come there. . . ." He settled down in his "house" (six feet by six), prepared...
This peculiar conduct of the Graf was by way of preparation for her projected Arctic flight. It satisfied the officers that, in good weather, the ship can put off and take aboard personnel for hunting or exploration. But the proposed rendezvous with Sir Hubert Wilkins' submarine Nautilus was abandoned because of the diver's misfortunes in crossing the Atlantic (TiME, June...
Many a sea-landing was made during the War, sometimes to take aboard the commander of a German minesweeper, fly him over a mine field located by the Zeppelin, and return him to his command. On occasion a suspected merchantman would be halted by a Zeppelin, boarded by an officer. If contraband were found, the steamer's crew was ordered to its small boats and the steamer bombed to the bottom by the Zeppelin. That practice was abandoned, however, because of the danger of destruction by incendiary bullets from the steamer. Wholly unrelated to a dirigible save by its bullet...