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...Biro-Bidjan is an enormously valuable property. Japan would like it. The Russian high command is determined to hold, colonize and develop it, possibly as a great metallurgical centre. Russia moved rapidly to survey the whole vast, 9,920,000-acre territory, forced the population up from 35,000 in 1928 to 50,000, founded two newspapers, one of them in Yiddish, made Yiddish the official language, organized collectives, state farms, village reading rooms and an agricultural college...
...command performance at London's Palladium Music Hall, George V and his Queen clapped enthusiastically when 50-year-old Sophie Tucker, appearing as a "Surprise Item," bellowed: Some of these days...
...McNamee is regarded as the handsomest admiral in the Navy. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1892, served on the U. S. S. Princeton in the Spanish American War, as a staff officer in the World War. Since then he has held many a sonorous title of high command: Director of Naval Intelligence, Naval Attache at the American Embassy, Commander of Destroyer Squadrons in the Battle Fleet, Director of Fleet Training, Vice Admiral in Command of Battleships, Admiral in Command of the Battle Force. The grandsons of Adam Gimbel Bavarian Jew who set up as storekeeper in Vincennes...
...powers to the President, today became the embattled defender of the Ship of State and the Constitution. Taking his cue from Oliver Wendell Holmes' stirring plea to save the Constitution's sea-going namesake from being ignominiously scuttled, the Senator from Idaho invoked all the sentimental balderdash at his command to keep the leaky old frigate and its battery of muzzle-loaders in the first line of the battle squadron against the iron-clads of despotism. Not one of the time honored bromides concerning the Constitution as the defender of Liberty was overlooked, and the overworked shades of Washington, Jefferson...
...marriageable age Wilhelm betrothed her to protege of his own selection and training; Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach--and it was the groom, not his bride whose name changed by the betrothal. He then became Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. Under this new head of the house, who took command in 1909, Krupp went further still, supplied fifty-two countries with arms before the war, and stood all but single-handed against the world during...