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...Raffles, a clerk of the East India Company, took ship to the Indies, remarking casually to his aunt that he would come back a duke. "Ah, Duke of Puddle Dock," snorted the old lady (referring to a filthy slum in London's East End). When, 21 years later, the onetime clerk came home to die, he was Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles, Kt., founder and administrator of the rich island-fortress of Singapore, an imperial hero of the stature of Robert Clive and Warren Hastings, the man who put a stop to East Indian slave dealing and for whom...
...give poison to Göring were legion. There were German doctors, cooks and laundry workers. While working in the prison they were forbidden to go outside, but they had contact with people from outside. Then there was the courtroom itself: during recesses throngs of people milled about the dock and papers were passed back & forth. Not since the day Göring entered Nürnberg prison was he forced to submit to a rectal examination. Other parts of his body (his ears, for instance) went unexamined...
...years the world would remember-perhaps with honor, perhaps with shame -the final scene. The empty dock with its bare wooden benches had looked vast and strange. An almost intimate solemnity, unbroken even by the mundane presence of photographers, had pervaded the packed courtroom. The brittle silence had given way to the firm, clear voice of Lord Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence (pronouncing eleven times: ". . . death by hanging") and to the noise of a paneled door, eleven times closing behind a condemned man. The occasion had lifted the eleven men from past bravado and past cowardice alike...
...some rocks and was unable to come any closer. She began to heavy. To unload these men, women and children by small boats would take too much time. The ship was in danger of capsizing and it was late. A scheme was hit upon. Ropes were thrown from the dock and secured on shore. Members of the shore party went into the water and ranged themselves along the ropes. Then, by means of this human life line, some two hundred souls were relayed, arm to arm, from the sea to the land. These were men of the Hagansh, the Jowish...
...last week the Marine Lynx waited at a San Francisco dock to take aboard her cargo: 408 missionaries, including wives & children, bound for China and the Philippines to pick up where most of them left off five years ago. For those who had forgotten that Americans were pioneers, their faces were a reminder. Now those faces were set toward a frontier of Christendom. Seldom had travelers been so impatient to get under way. But Harry Lundeberg, boss of the strike-ridden Embarcadero, would make no exceptions. "We can't give 'em any relief," said...