Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, Manhattan, returned to his congregation on the Minnckahda. Like his good friend, Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin (see p. 36), he announced that he would vote for Herbert Clark Hoover, and added, "I shall not make my pulpit a political platform."

Lady Astor (nee Nancy Witcher Langhorne of Mirador, Grenwood, Va.), member of the British Parliament, arrived on the Aquitania with 27 pieces of baggage, a diamond tiara and a daughter (Phyllis). They were met at the pier by Lady Astor's sister, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson. They are to attend the great ball given by Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia. For reporters, Lady Astor had some of her customary quixotic generalities: "I am a wily old politician and I won't be trapped. . . . Women do not vote as do their husbands. That is one of the delusions men have which they must get over. I can say, however, that many men vote as do their wives. . . . It would not matter now if the Labor Party won at the [British] general election, because labor has stopped killing capitalists in England and has acquired a good deal of common sense in dealing with affairs. . . ."

Fritz Kreisler and Ina Claire also came in on the Aquitania--he with pleasant words for Composers Gershwin and Youmans; she with the sentence, "I don't mind who does the singing and dancing, so long as the author gives me plenty of funny lines." She was referring to Nell Gwynne, a musical comedy in which she will appear in Manhattan.

William Allen White returned on the President Harding, prepared to relieve himself of another "whoop" on the presidential campaign.

Irene Bordoni, actress, brought with her on the Ile de France a folding portable bar equipped with a sign: "Vote for Al Smith." A baby born at sea to a French mother and Polish father was christened Samuel (Kosman) in honor of famed mythical "Uncle Sam." Others on the Ile de France were Elsie Ferguson, Raymond Orteig, donor of the $25,000 Paris-New York flight prize which Hero Lindbergh captured, Senator Lawrence C. Phipps of Colorado, who had trouble with the customs officials.

Prayers, by 50 passengers wearing life preservers, were offered from the third-class deck of the Roma during a storm so violent that the ship's propellers were lifted out of the water and spun around jarringly. The Roma weathered the storm, reached Manhattan safely.

"Ceaseless Shuttles weaving the fabric of international goodwill" was what John L. Merrill, president of the Pan-American Society of the U. S., called ships as the new Grace liner Santa Barbara sailed for Havana, the Canal Zone and South America.