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...mate would gaze expectantly over the waters, looking for the swift little rum runner which would surely come. Hours passed. Then, suddenly, four small motor craft raced into sight, came up to the Pellegrini, but not alongside. They circled around and around-picket boats of the U. S. Coast Guard...
...Pellegrini, well provisioned, prepared to stay a month, until this new official nonsense might cease. But, a few days later, she was visited by a Coast Guard vessel on inspection, was notified that war had begun. Her crew offered a case of champagne for a package of cigarets, but the contract was not concluded...
...accordance with announcements made in March, there were assembled in the waters of the middle Atlantic, early in May, a score of revenue cutters (Customs Service), a dozen submarine chasers (borrowed from the U.S. Navy) and nearly 100 picket boats and larger vessels belonging to the U.S. Coast Guard under the command of Rear Admiral Billard. All these vessels were put at the disposal of General Lincoln C. Andrews, recently appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (TIME, April 13). He directed them, under the general supervision of Secretary Mellon...
...Sixth. He has set himself resolutely to solve the housing problem and made that one of his major policies. His success is evidenced by the construction of three Freshman Dormitories, with one more in process, the purchase of many privately owned dormitories, including the so-called "Gold Coast," the construction of additional dormitories and provision for other dormitory facilities in the Yard, the movement now on foot to secure a Medical School dormitory, and the prospect of early construction of adequate dormitory facilities for the Business School, for which funds have been raised and plans approved...
...help. There were last year in the Faculty of the University of California 50 men whose graduate training, wholly or in part, was received in the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and of these men 40 were of professorial rank. The University of California represents the Pacific Coast. But the figures for the Dartmouth Faculty were precisely the same--50 men from this School, of whom 40 were of professorial rank. Stanford has 27 men on its Faculty from the Harvard Graduate School; Bowdoin, 32. In the Middle West, the University of Wisconsin has 39 men from this...