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...fine morning the Presidential yacht, Mayflower, put to sea without her master or mistress aboard. Instead there were Edward T. Clark, the President's private secretary; Ellen Peck, secretary to Mr. Clark; Mrs. Clark; E. W. Smithers, the White House telegraphist; Pat McKenna, Cerberus of the White House office, friend of all dignitaries for the last 20 years; Erwin Geisser, the President's stenographer; Katherine Gwynn, Mrs. Coolidge's maid; John May, White House butler, valet ad interim to the President; Julia Jongbloet, cook, successor to the famed Martha M. Mulvey; Rob Roy, collie; and Paul...
...first time in the history of the U. S. Navy, two women were court- martialed. Ruth M. Anderson and Katherine. C. Glancy, naval nurses, were charged with bringing forbidden liquors into the U. S. in their luggage aboard the U. S. S. Kittery...
...Maui, steaming out of the Golden Gate, was like a vessel going on a voyage of discovery. Aboard her, a little knot of a score or so Americans constituted the band of adventurers?a strange and motley crew, a handful of college presidents, as many professors, Y. M. C. A. officials, editors, a business man or two, a few politicians, a couple of women. At their head, Captain of the little band of élite and erudite adventurers, x-student at Frankfort-on-the-Main and Munich, Ray Lyman Wilbur, President of Leland Stanford Jr. University, gazed westward across...
...Curley gave a luncheon for the fliers. MacMillan also attended this ceremonial meal, then returned to Southport, Me., where he had just taken his schooner Bozvdoin to have her sails bent on. His own ship, the Peary, waited at Wiscasset, Me., where the dismantled planes were to be loaded aboard and the start made on Bunker Hill Day (June 17). Governor Brewster of Maine planned the event as a state function with speeches, brass bands and official godspeed...
Johnson Expedition. Besides the Amundsen rescue parties, the schooner Zodiac, 130-foot yacht of Johnson & Johnson (Robert W. and J. Steward), manufacturers of surgical supplies at New Brunswick, N. J., was soon to nose into the north with both Johnson brothers aboard. Their destination was to be Newfoundland, where they would search the ice-bitten shores for traces of the 40-ft. sloop Leif Ericsson which sailed out of Reykjavik, Iceland, last August under an amateut Norwegian skipper with a party of artists to "follow the trail of the Vikings" to Nova Scotia. Last winter, the U. S. cruiser Trenton...