STEAMSHIP SERVICES
AN AMERICAN INSPECTOR (From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, 29th November. President Roosevelt really does “do” things. And he has the knack of getting tlie right people to “do” the doing. Occasionally he has got hold of a misfit, but not often, considering the novelty of much of of his New Deal policy. He has made no mistake in choosing as inspector of steamship services Captain George Fried, whose heroic and skilled seamanship was shown in the Antinoe and other ocean rescues. Captain Fried started his career in the forecastle as an A. 8., hut he has won his way right up the nautical ladder, and his mere physiognomy is enough to inform even the poorest psychologist that the new inspector is a super he-man. They would offer him big money at Los Angeles to play sea roles of the same genre in which. (Victor Maclaglan is famous ashore. But Captain Fried will probably stick to bis last. His appointment is the direct sequel to the feeling aroused in the States by the Morro Castle inquiry. The temper of that feeling is illustrated by the demand one New York journal made for information' how several passengers manage!) to gate-crash into a lifeboat!
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 8 January 1935, Page 2
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