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...Palestine was in Greek waters on her maiden trip from Haifa to Trieste when the Greek revolution enveloped her like a dark cloud. What chiefly worried the Jewish crew and captain of the 10,000-ton Tel Aviv ("Hill of Spring") was not the revolution, however, but the behavior of a tall, lean-faced man who paced nervously up & down the promenade deck, wandered disconsolately between the kosher kitchen and the ship's synagog. Tel Aviv's owner, President Arnold Bernstein of Palestine Navigation Co., was impatient to get ashore, hurry to Paris for the annual spring meeting...
...immediate operation of his own flagship is concerned, an Admiral is little more than a passenger. The Hood's behavior was none of Admiral Bailey's business. The sole questions were: 1) Had he given proper and sufficient signals for the maneuver? 2) Was there sufficient space for the ships to maneuver in safety? Admiral Bailey's defender in court (known officially as "the Prisoner's Friend") was his immediate predecessor in command of the Battle Cruiser Squadron, Vice Admiral William Milburne James, grandson of the late great painter Sir John Everett Millais and known...
...usually supposed to do. Inbreeding in a stock which has latent defects will naturally intensify those traits. I can't say that race mixture in this case has been harmful. . . . The people are superior physically and are also a hardworking, intelligent lot. In psychology and behavior they are predominantly British...
Most striking evidence of this return to form was the behavior of Senator Wagner of New York. Twenty-five years ago Robert Wagner, son of a German janitor in Manhattan, served in the New York Legislature with Franklin Roosevelt, aristocratic scion of an old Dutch family. Together they fought for liberal social legislation, became fast friends. "Bob" Wagner went on to the Senate while "Frank" Roosevelt was in training for the Presidency at Albany as Governor. Last year Senator Wagner served as chief advocate at the Capitol of President Roosevelt's New Deal for labor. Last week Senator Wagner...
Doris Duke is a trustee of the university that disturbed Economist Mitchell. She inherited $53,000,000 from her father. Depression shaved that fortune to $30,000,000, still let Miss Duke remain undisputed No. i heiress in the U. S. Her behavior as such was appropriate. Father Duke's polish was acquired by friction along the rough road to riches. But Mother Duke was born an aristocrat, Nanaline Holt, of a First Family of Macon, Ga. Gracious, conservative, charming, she became the second wife of Tycoon Duke, and five years later Doris was born. For her upbringing, Doris...