Word: channelize
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...begins in earnest when the first ship with newsworthy passengers aboard picks up its pilot and starts up Ambrose Channel toward Staten Island. Then the Customs cutter shoves off from the Barge Office to meet her at Quarantine. Along go the privileged newshawks. Before the ship docks they will have an hour and a half to stalk their prey...
...four long years of War France and Britain tried in vain to break Germany's 435-mile trench stronghold from the Channel to the Swiss border. For four years of Depression the U. S. Government has tried in vain to break the deadlock in the building business, to move the nation's heavy industries once more into open country. Commander Hoover used exhortation. Generalissimo Roosevelt tried a more tangible method of as sault. In May he drew his plans. In June Congress approved them. In July organization began. Last week was launched the great housing drive whose unwritten slogan...
...peerless civil servants of the British Foreign Office took charge of all details. M. Barthou, who crossed the channel for a personal conference with Sir John, ostentatiously returned last week to Paris. British public opinion was prepared for what was coming by a few intimations that what Europe needs is a return to "the Spirit of Locarno." Nine years ago at Locarno, Switzerland, gold pens squiggled in the hands of Benito Mussolini, Austen Chamberlain, and the late great peace men of France and Germany. Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann. Today the Locarno Treaty, still in full force, binds...
Three days later British Secretary for War Viscount Hailsham crossed the Channel with 40 British staff officers including General Sir Archibald Armar Montgomery-Massingberd. Chief of the Imperial Gen eral Staff, and set out from Paris as guests of the French General Staff for a four-day tour of the Franco-Belgian frontier and Wartime battlefields...
...fortunate that none of the passengers in Channel Crossing (see above) encounters the hero of this picture on his way to the boat. Mr. Latimer (Clive Brook) owns a house on the Dover Road where it is his whimsy to detain persons bound for France for the purpose of meddling in their business. Unlike the morose financier in Channel Crossing, who would doubtless have murdered Mr. Latimer on sight, the people whom Mr. Latimer entertains in Where Sinners Meet are four amiable peewees, admirably suited to his favorite pastime of interrupting elopements to make sure that the participants are well...