Word: portes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...later Wartime professor of Greek and Latin in Petrograd he led the agitation in Russia for Lithuanian Independence. Escaping from Russia during the Revolution he appeared as Lithuania's chief delegate at the Paris Peace Conference (1919-20) where he made a reputation for himself by incessantly demanding the Port of Vilna (Poland) for Lithuania. Returning to his homeland, he became Prime Minister, then Dictator in 1926. Not long before he lost his dictatorship an attempt was made to assassinate him (TIME, May 20, 1929) which resulted in the death of his aide and his small grand- nephew. Professor Valdemaras...
...great ship was winding up the St. Lawrence valley toward Quebec when fabric covering her port stabilizer finally yielded to the whipping of the wind and tore loose-a mishap similar to that which befell the Graf Zeppelin on her first Atlantic flight. Without parachutes, members of the R-100's crew crawled precariously about the tattered fin, made makeshift repairs...
Later the R-100 poked into a squall. Officers and men clutched for support. Fuel slopped out of tanks. Worse, the hydrogen balloonets were in danger of bursting because of the sudden pressure release. The fabric of the starboard fin let go, as the port had done. After a minute of severe tossing the R-100 was again master, plowing ahead on an even keel. The laconic log-entry by Squadron Leader R. S. Booth, in command: "Ship's height varied rapidly between...
Died. Richard Sutro, 66, Manhattan financier and railroad man, after a five month illness; in Port Chester...
...Tunis, 41, is a Harvard man (1911), studied at Harvard Law School. Onetime reporter, he is now billed as a sports "critic." He is on the staff of the New York Evening Post. Like most successful sportwriters, harping on and exposing professionalism is his forte. He has also written: $port$, Heroics and Hysterics...