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...Egypt 400 ft. undersea (TIME, June 2, July 18), was back in Man- hattan with a sensational version of the salvaging of H. M. S. Hampshire in the North Sea. The Hampshire, victim of a German mine, went down with Earl Kitchener and some $10,000,000 in gold aboard...
...London Economic Conference next month. The White House secretariat pooh-poohed the story, and the President discouraged it by reciting his summer plans to the Press: He would go to the graduation of his son John at Groton School in early June, receive an honorary degree at Rutgers later. Aboard the cruiser Indianapolis he would steam up the coast from Philadelphia probably as far as Marblehead. There he and his sons would board the Amberjack II and sail themselves up to the Roosevelt summer home in New Brunswick. After a few weeks there the President would return to Hyde Park...
...been rebuilt for seadrome purposes. Most ingenious device is the landing apron, an enormous sheet of tarpaulin criss-crossed by wooden laths. The apron trails in the water from the steamer's stern. A seaplane or amphibian alighting at the station taxies up the apron to be hoisted aboard- apron and all. For taking off there are catapults on the Westphalen's deck. Also she provides radio, weather forecasting paraphernalia, fuel etc. The Westphalen was chartered by Germany's Lufthansa, which hopes to beat both France and Italy in the race for the first heavier-than...
...first cousin Warren Delano Robbins as Minister to Canada, and Hugh Gibson, Ambassador to Belgium and for 25 years a career diplomat, to be Ambassador to Brazil. ¶Down the Potomac to Indian Head and back to Washington cruised President Roosevelt one balmy afternoon and evening last week. Also aboard the Sequoia were seven big-eyed girls from Manhattan's Todhunter School, guests of Mrs. Roosevelt, their onetime teacher...
...Richard Bedford Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada, whose eagerness to strike a quick trade & tariff bargain with the U. S. had to be restrained by President Roosevelt. On it next week were to sit Guido Jung, Italy's Minister of Finance, on his way to the U. S. aboard the Conte di Savoia as Premier Mussolini's personal representative, and Hjalmar Schacht. president of the German Reichsbank whom Dictator Hitler had dispatched to Washington...