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...barely unpacked his trunks in the White House when Prohibition's most spectacular international incident arose to embarrass him. Off the coast of Louisiana U. S. Coast Guard cutters chased the rum-running Canadian schooner I'm Alone 200 miles out to sea, there shelled and sank her (TIME, April 1, 1929). One seaman, a French citizen, was killed. British and Canadian newspapers roared with pain. U. S. Wets bubbled over in frothy indignation. Terse memoranda flew between London, Ottawa and Washington. Strenuously the U. S. State Department sought to defend the act's legality...
...portly, white-wooled Oscar De Priest, onetime (1929-34) Negro Congressman from Illinois. The judge asked whether he could pay a $38 judgment in favor of a stationer, got this reply: "I am penniless and looking for a job." All but $1,500 of his money Oscar De Priest sank in his unsuccessful campaign for re-election last autumn. The last $1,500 went for income taxes...
...impatient passengers bet on the length of the delay. The Empress of Britain reported more business at the bars during one day's delay than during a whole ten-day cruise. The French liner Champlain stuck briefly in a mudbank. Near the Statue of Liberty a ferry sank a coal-barge. The Hamburg-American liner Resolute sideswiped a freighter, erasing the last six letters of her own name from the bow. Ellis Island's Immigration Station reported it was short of food...
High scorer for the Crimson quintet was Leavitt S. White '37, who chalked up nine points in the first half. During the latter half he sank one basket but tired perceptibly towards the end. In the opposition ranks his performance was equalled only by O'Donnell, who also rang up 11 points. The summary: HARVARD PENNSYLVANIA Stephenson, Lavietes, Moser, l.f. r.f., Kozloff, Hanger White, r.f. l.f., O'Donnell Gray, c. c., Freeman Boys, Kollinites, l.g. r.g., Tauseer, Murray Fletcher, r.g. l.g., Hashagen...
...knifed her amidships, nearly broke her in half. While the ship's orchestra played "Somebody Stole My Gal," passengers waded across decks knee-deep in water. Tooting furiously, harbor tugs bustled to the Lexington's side, took off passengers & crew almost before they knew it. The Lexington sank in ten minutes, took four seamen with...