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...badly jostled by news cameramen seeking her husband. A delegation of New Jersey politicians came aboard. It was all Ambassador Morrow could do to squelch their demonstration in behalf of his candidacy for the Senate. Statesman Stimson, in a final interview, was drowned out by the rattle of a deck winch...
Idly she rode, her 12,900 ft. of sail furled. The crew were going leisurely through the routine chores of a ship in port. On the quarter deck was James Percy Ault, master of arts, magnetician, the Carnegie's commander in all the oceans for the past 13 years. He was overseeing the storage of a load of gasoline...
...witnessed the parade when it passed scheduled points. As for the hall being half-filled, this is another untruth. It was well filled but not packed and that I feel due to another last minute change in plans. The President was to have spoken in the open from the deck of The Greenbrier and amplifiers had been placed at a cost of $750 at the Ohio River waterfront for the purpose of enabling the crowds to hear him. Then the President did not speak at the waterfront due to the heavy rain and comparatively few people learned in time that...
...loll on the deck of a tanker, coatless, hatless, collarless, vestless, and with no photographers about-ah boys! that is an ideal holiday for a politician. Most people think of a tanker as a dirty old tub. It is nothing of the sort. The food is excellent, and the sleeping accommodations as good as on any liner...
...Captain Bingham's explanations were unnecessary. The air was filled with the roar of drills, and great gaps in the deck testified to the one-time existence of smoke stacks...