Word: aboards
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...quietly that few were conscious of his going, Frederic Moseley Sackett, until lately Senator from Kentucky, sailed out of New York harbor last week aboard the S. S. President Harding to take up the first diplomatic duty of his life as U. S. Ambassador to Germany. With him went Mrs. Sackett. Their departure was almost drab. Only a handful of friends Godsped them from the Hoboken pier. In contrast to the departure for Paris of Ambassador Edge, that other Senator also just beginning a diplomatic career, nobody asked Ambassador Sackett to make any farewell speeches. Nobody gave him any parting...
Married. Constanza, daughter of rebellious onetime Premiere José Sanchez Guerra of Spain; and Lieut. José Estrella of the Spanish navy, one of her father's guards while he was a state prisoner aboard the gunboat Dato (TIME, Feb. 11, 1929 et seq.); at Madrid...
...midst of a moving discourse by the President of the Megntzu Agricultural Society, bandit-soldiers rushed into the banquet hall. Roughly they herded the befuddled flower of Megntzu together, bundled them off to the railroad station, piled them aboard a train which chuffed off 200 miles inland to the end of the line. Cold sober now, the District Magistrate, the Garrison Commander, the Wireless Director and all their friends were forced to tramp over hard frozen roads to a cave high in the mountains. For their release the wily bandit of Megntzu demanded not one but four camel-loads...
Great was the confusion aboard the George Washington before sailing. Mrs. Stimson was badly jostled by news cameramen seeking her husband. A delegation of New Jersey politicians came aboard. It was all Ambassador Morrow could do to squelch their demonstration in behalf of his candidacy for the Senate. Statesman Stimson, in a final interview, was drowned out by the rattle of a deck winch...
...Zealand officials, sent as administrators to Samoa, raised their own salaries, emptied the Treasury, set up a virtual monopoly in copra. For paying the natives a higher price for copra than the New Zealand Syndicate, one J. Nelson, millionaire South Sea trader, operator of So trading stations, was hustled aboard a steamer, deported from Samoa...