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...menace to French coastal navigation. So spectacular have been the Artiglio's successes that a French warship hovered unobtrusively in the offing, taking notes. Overboard went the Artiglio's two chief divers, Alberto Gianni and S. Francesci. After them were lowered special mines which were intended to blow up the hulk of the Florence H. Suddenly the sea rose like a bubble, burst with a deafening roar into towers of spray. The little Artiglio was tossed in the air like a child's toy, broke in two, sank instantly. Only seven of her crew of 21 were...
...Exchequer Philip Snowden set his little steel-trap jaw against this proposal, forced Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald to kill it. It was contrary to Mr. Snowden's faith in free trade, a faith which he holds with fierce, fanatical tenacity. It would have been a staggering blow to the already groggy U. S. Grain Stabilization Corp...
When 13 Manhattan acres were swept by fire (Dec. 16-17, 1835), it was a blow to the city but a boost for Nathaniel Currier. Four days after the fire he was selling lithographed prints of the disaster by the thousand; his years of hard sledding were over. In 1852 Currier was joined by James Merritt Ives, "a young man who yearned to be an artist but who was a bookkeeper because he had no particular desire to starve." Till 1907 the firm of Currier & Ives kept its existence, though Currier retired in 1880. Ives died...
Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, addressing the Chicago Geographic Society, revealed that his Antarctic expedition was still financially embarrassed. Said he: "We must get out of debt before I can discuss my plans for the future. The hard times dealt us a serious blow. At present the Antarctic expedition is $110,000 in debt. Our movie is not making anything to speak of." Variety last week reported that the Admiral's lectures are grossing $4,000 to $5,000 nightly; that he will clear some...
...came the wail of "The Prisoner's Song." There had been trouble. Some eyes still smarted from tear gas with which the local constabulary had dispersed a mob of undergraduates who had attempted to enter the university heating plant. Object of entering the heating plant was apparently to blow the whistle, make further disturbance. Cause of this unusual activity: a general student strike, precipitated when Dean of Women Una B. Herrick ruled that all co-eds must be in their dormitories...