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Later these same ships fought most valiantly but unavailingly against the superior force of the American Fleet, under the command of that gallant and chivalrous Spanish gentleman and brilliant officer Admiral Cervera, who justly gave merited praise to the handsome manner in which Lieutenant Hobson executed a most difficult and hazardous maneuver, under which the unarmed, frail collier was subjected to what was probably the heaviest fire ever concentrated upon a single ship, before or since...
...along the Labor front last week, the forces of A. F. of L. and C. I. O. were at last coming to grips in the internecine war foreshadowed by last summer's historic split. But while a united C. I. O. drove forward under Leader Lewis' command, A. F. of L.'s scattered armies seemed headed for certain brawls among themselves. Prime reason for the Labor split was John Lewis' threatened industrial-union encroachment on A. F. of L.'s jealously guarded craft union preserves. Yet last week, in a panicky rush to head...
Promptly Prince Nicholas issued an order of the day advising Rumanian troops that he, Nicholas, remained President of the Supreme War Council. This order of the day was suppressed by command of toothy Prince Nicholas' even toothier elder brother, King Carol II. His Majesty was also graciously pleased to convene the Crown Council so that it might deal with what was obviously a national emergency...
...Sept. 7, 1934 Captain Robert Willmott of the Ward Liner Morro Castle suddenly died. Chief Officer William Ferdinand Warms took command. That night, a few miles off Asbury Park, N. J., the Morro Castle burned, with a loss of 134 lives, in one of the greatest U. S. marine disasters (TIME, Sept. 17, 1934). Though Acting Captain Warms was the last man to leave his ship, a court presently convicted him of criminal negligence, sentenced him to two years in jail. Chief Engineer Eben Starr Abbott, who abandoned ship in the first lifeboat, was convicted on the same charge, given...
...Manhattan two years ago Antonia Brico assembled 87 women musicians and conducted them in their first symphony concert (TIME, March 25, 1935). Last week when Miss Brico wound up the third season of the New York Women's Symphony Orchestra, she also had command over four solo singers and a composite chorus of 250. This time there were men in her orchestra, managing some of the unwieldy winds. Though Conductor Brico was in excellent form and the women played better than ever before, the real hero of the evening was Horatio William Parker, a dead and almost forgotten composer...