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...farm relief and on the possibility of an extra session of Congress. Finally it was just possible that Mr. Hoover had found too much for him the task of making up a cabinet miles away from everybody. Maybe he was returning to Washington to get some suggestions. Remote aboard the Utah, Mr. Hoover offered no specific explanation...
...York-Havana trade. Across from Southampton had steamed, as usual, the Cunarder Caronia, bearing 13 disciples of Isadora Duncan and 587 other passengers. But the Caronia had not steamed, as usual, back to England. Instead, she had paused in New York only long enough to take aboard a capacity passenger list for the first Cunard trip to Havana...
Vividly do Swedes recall a day a few months ago when the Principe Alfonso slid swiftly out of Stockholm harbor. Aboard was King Alfonso XIII, the first King of Spain ever to visit Sweden (TIME, Sept. 24). But what was the tiny speedboat that darted like a water flea after the large ship? Swedes recall that the speedboat drew alongside the Principe Alfonso which, churning the water to soapy froth, stopped. A box was lifted aboard with pulleys. The Principe Alfonso moved on. The impertinent little speedboat shot back toward Stockholm. What did it all mean...
...Boozer and Donald Duke, two U.S. flyers, fellow passengers on the Pan-American Mail liner Colombia, bound for the Canal Zone. At the Canal Zone the flyers intend to fly to Costa Rica. Young Gonzalez wants to go along, to spend Christmas at the Costa Rican presidential palace. But aboard the steamship they would not promise him the trip. There might be an accident; he might be killed. The father Gonzalez would be pained, Costa Ricans vexed...
...colonizer was Thomas B. Wells, 26, a Yale graduate. With his young wife he recently went out to what seemed a promising job on one of the Firestone plantations. There he contracted malaria. Prudent, he and his wife left Liberia, speeded home. Last week they were crossing the Atlantic aboard the French Line's majestic Ile de France...