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Running under forced draft the Chateau Thierry reached San Francisco, from New York by way of the Panama Canal, in 13 days, 22 hours, a record run. At San Francisco, the shipboard epidemic was under control. Only 75 men still suffered. Ambulances took bed-ridden cases from the dock to the hospitals. Undertakers called for four...
...President ordered the Mayflower from her dock for the first time since last fall, sailed down the Potomac with Mrs. Coolidge for a week-end cruise. Secretary of Labor James J. Davis and Mrs. Davis, Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison and Mrs. Davison were among the guests...
Governor H. J. Allen wrote: "With a humility which is after all, the beginning of wisdom a number of students have asked for better opportunities to study international problems. Our vessel sailed out of Shanghai dock, as she had sailed in, to the accompaniment of fire crackers and cordial cheers exchanged between the docks and the decks. The fire cracker seems to be to the Chinese what the Aloha is to the Hawaiian. It's their way of saying welcome and goodbye with emphasis...
Said the Bishop, as his boat pulled to its Manhattan dock last week: "The Church will win. It always wins in the long run. It will win by defending its rights in a legal way?and prayer will help...
Died. Robert P. ("Big Bob") Brindell, 47; onetime Manhattan labor Tsar; in Manhattan, of lung infection. As dock laborer he first organized 3,000 longshoremen, who paid him $18,000 a year (50c a month per man) for securing wage increase. Founding the Building Trades Council (1919), he came into command of 115,000 men, gave diamonds, automobiles, to friends. Imprisoned for extensive extortion (1921), he was released (1924) minus friends, health and most of the $1,000,000 he had made...