Word: patroller
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...brief conference, late in the week, good-natured Captain Adolphus Andrews, for three years skipper of the Presidential yacht Mayflower, and his successor, Captain Wilson Brown, who served until recently as aide to the Commander of the Pacific destroyer squadron and commanded during the War the anti-submarine patrol ship Parker...
...further established himself as a vigorous enforcer by sending to Congress a prepared statement promising virtual extinction of present liquor supply if the $3,000,000 additional requests by President Coolidge were granted. And he outlined plans for a border patrol of 12 000 men to keep out Canadian liquor...
Ullman, an in-and-outer last year, will patrol the keystone sector, and should prove dangerous to opposing twirlers. Sullivan, a Sophomore whom probation has prevented from displaying his wares hitherto, will fill the short-stop position today, and if he performs capably, the infield leak caused by Howard's injury last spring, may definitely be plugged. Coach Mitchell is not losing any sleep over the third base problem, and Zarakov, last year's spectacular performer, will again hold down the hot corner...
...Titanic disaster aroused the nations to institute an annual patrol from April to July along the northern steamer lanes, whither the icebergs float after they break from their Greenland glaciers. The U. S. took up the burden, many nations sharing the expense. So efficient has been this search for and report of wandering bergs that not a life has been lost since the patrol...
...early days of the rum fleet were however concluded by the American coast patrol, which seized several thousand cases of contraband liquor belonging to Sir Broderick's company. The Baronet admitted that this disastrous coup exhausted his funds. He gamely stuck at it, however, and announced that he would next try to land cargoes through the "Bahamas International Trading Co." if he could finance the new organization. But the British press frowned upon the venture. The influential London Daily Mail warned prospective investors against it. The apparent result was Sir Broderick's recent bankruptcy...