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...last week occurred what might possibly be the next thing to a trip for the Senator when his wife, Mamie McConnell Borah, sailed out of New York aboard the S. S. Mauretania for her first trip to Europe. A mix-up about her passport caused a flurry at the pier until the French Consul General discovered that her husband was none other than the great Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Borah friends in Washington speculated on what influence, if any, Mrs. Borah's excursion might have on the foreign policy of the U. S. Would she return with such...
Today the Navy has 829 planes, including those for training purposes. Mr. In galls is sure that, in battle efficiency, bombing and scouting, these compare favorably with any other foreign airfleet. Aboard the giant carriers Lexington and Saratoga are carried 80 planes apiece, with a secret higher battle capacity. War plans call for the assignment of three planes to each battleship and large cruiser. In peace practice each such ship carries only...
...come about because Sir Thomas, and the syndicates building U. S. boats to defend the Cup, have agreed that they ought to use only a "sensible type of yacht." The Shamrock V will compete in English regattas in May and will sail across the Atlantic with 20 men aboard, for the Cup races in September. Her skipper will be Ernest Heard, mate on the Shamrock...
Roald Amundsen was the name of a 15-ton, one-sail vessel, built to resemble (except for a galley funnel) the oldtime Viking ships, which reached Havana last week from Port Palos, Spain, after a 42-day voyage. Aboard: a crew of four and Captain Gerhard Folgero, good friend of the late Explorer Amundsen. Their aim: to collect funds to erect an Amundsen monument...
When Author LoBagola was seven, he and 13 other boys (the oldest n) wan- dered too far from the village, got lost, after 45 days came to the sea. There they saw a steamship, went out to it in a canoe, clambered aboard. LoBagola wandered down to the engine room. When the warning siren blew, it so terrified the little black boys on deck that they jumped over the rail, were all drowned or killed by sharks. LoBagola, locked in a cabin, was carried to Scotland, a savage little animal who' would not wear clothes, bit people who tried...