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...fires out. On the bridge Captain Van Dulken jangled telegraph handles, shouted down speaking tubes, stumped about like a bipedal Stuyvesant. The crew stayed stubborn and the Rotterdam drifted uncomfortably close to the coast of France. Finally Captain Van Dulken capitulated, but he still had a retort. Off the Hook of Holland a company of 30 Dutch Marines clambered aboard. Escorted by the mine layer Van Meerlant, the Rotterdam put into her home port where four indomitable policemen waited on the quay. Nine foreign members of the crew and one Dutch sailor were arrested as agitators. The rest...
...generally arranged as vacation trips. A ten-day wild life survey by three Senators (Nevada's Pittman, Connecticut's Walcott, Missouri's Hawes) with their salaried assistants cost $1,983,67. Among the itemized expenses were: motorboat hire, $60; mineral water, $31; Minnesota fishing licenses, $22; one spoon hook, $1.25; three sinkers, 15¢; can of minnows, 75?...
...White House the President, clad in blue serge coat and white flannels, went to the D. A. R.'s Constitution Hall to deliver a speech opening his campaign for reelection. Some 4,000 admiring friends sat before him; countless millions listened over the largest political radio hook-up ever attempted (160 stations). When the Widow Roosevelt entered, the audience stood and cheered. She responded with a wide gesture of embrace. The President had a bunch of red roses handed to her. "Simply and Plainly." President Hoover was given a nine-minute ovation by his enthusiastic followers. Thereafter their applause...
...week Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett revealed how the Akron is reversing that practice. When atmospheric conditions make it impossible for the ship to land without valving out part of her costly helium, her commander flashes a radio call for two combat planes. The planes fly out from Lakehurst, hook on to the Akron. The 6,000 lb. added ballast permits the ship to land without loss...
Polite but firm were Presidents Harry Arnold and Henry M. Clarke of the New-York and New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilots Associations as they proceeded, one day last week, on a round of personal calls upon the operating managers of all steamship lines in New York Harbor. Fun was fun. said they, but pilots were pilots. They were really tired now of bringing back from Sandy Hook those convivial or sentimental pier visitors who "forget" to leave the ship before she pulls out. or who devilishly say. "Let's stay aboard and get off with the pilot." Hereafter, said...