Word: champlain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Champlain stopped at Quarantine. Manhattan ship reporters leaped aboard, gathered in the children's play room. Professor Piccard reluctantly (he fears the Press; TIME, Jan. 16) descended from the captain's bridge, sniffed at the reporters, ran. They were smoking, "a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking...
...Jonas went back to Paris. Last week marked his return from Elba. Up New York Bay came M. Jonas as field commander of a $1,200,000 French syndicate formed to buy back (at Depression prices) French works of art from hard-up millionaires. In the S.S. Champlain's smoking room he explained his campaign to ship news reporters...
Spurred by the success of Germans with the world's fastest first-class ships (TIME, Jan. 26. 1931), the French Line put on the Atlantic last week its new Champlain, fastest cabin & tourist-class liner and larger than the French Line's first-class liner France...
Aboard on her maiden voyage last week was the Champlain's "Godmother," Mme Louis Germain-Martin, wife of the Finance Minister of France, also Norma Talmadge. her friend George Jessel and Tenor Charles Hackett. To meet the Champlain at Manhattan went Mayor of Quebec Lieut.-Colonel H. G. Lavigueur and a troupe of Canadian moppets, all claiming descent from 17th Century Samuel de Champlain, founder of Quebec and first governor of New France (now Canada...
Since minimum fares are fixed by the Atlantic Conference on a basis of speed, not size, the Champlain's $145 minimum cabin-class fare was challenged last week, shipmen contending that because of her greater speed she will have to be placed in a special cabin-class bracket with slightly higher fare. Similarly when the German speed ships were introduced their first-class fares were forced above the "No. 1" bracket of first-class liners into an especially created "A" bracket. On her maiden voyage the Champlain averaged 19½ knots, but like the Bremen and Europa has speed...