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...dingy schooner beat into the small harbor of Gibara in the north of Oriente Province last week and tied up to the fruit dock. Quick as monkeys three dozen Cubans went over the side with a light machine gun and a high angle anti-aircraft...
...know what my father said or did at the dock when confronted with the question of what I was up to but in any case it must have been greatly magnified by gossip-hunters, but I only wish that my parent would desist in future from giving rise to such rotten and unhelpful publicity...
...ship, largest ever built, outwardly completed, would have about 5,500,000 cu. ft. of helium in her twelve gas cells (capacity 6,500,000 cu. ft.), more than enough to make her buoyant. Handling-lines manned by workmen would hold her fast to the concrete deck of the dock. Under the ship's blunt nose, with its shiny metal tip projecting 75 ft. overhead, was to be a flag-draped wooden platform, festooned with microphones, crowded with bigwigs of the Navy and of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. There would sit Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke. Assistant...
...white-uniformed officers & 51 enlisted men, nucleus of the Akron's personnel, were to stand rigidly abreast of their skipper, Lieut.-Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl. An orchestra of 500 high-school pupils was to render "The Star Spangled Banner" and, as the last note whispered through the cavernous dock, Mrs. Hoover would yank the ribbon, opening the little hatch, tumbling out Frank Eisentrout's 48 astonished pigeons. Then it would be Zeno Wicks's moment to give the signal "up ship!" The workmen would slack off the mooring tackle and up would go the Akron about five...
...honorary vice chairmen and 56 plain committeemen was formed last week to safeguard the Freedom of the Press. It was created under the auspices of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and made public at a meeting of newsmen and Foundation leaders aboard the S. S. He de France in dock at Manhattan. By telephone from Chicago, Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick, whose 51st birthday it was, formally accepted honorary chairmanship. Chairman is Claude Gernade Bowers, editorial writer of Hearst's New York Journal, late of the Evening World, keynoter of the 1928 Democratic national convention. Vice chairmen are Editor Marlen...