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...probably the best remembered of the heroes who sprang from the people to rid the new Russia of the White armies. A born leader of men, a man of magnificent courage and character, yet uneducated and scarcely lettered, Chapayev was thought to need direction by the high Soviet command. Thus, Commissar Furmanov is detailed to consolidate the army's gains for the Bolsheviks. Making fine use of the delightful Russian sense of humor, the director has told much in the clashes between the quiet Furmanov and the fiery, jealous, and naively conceited Chapayev. But in contrast to his simple peasant...
...something to do with it. Or perhaps the crew was somehow at fault. Nevertheless orders are orders and therefore the U.S.S. Macon soared away from her Sunnyvale mooring mast on schedule early one morning last week to take her usual part in fleet maneuvers off the California coast. In command of the Navy's one & only dirigible and her 82 officers & men was Lieut. Commander Herbert Vincent ("Doc") Wiley. That grey-haired 43-year-old skipper, who looks a little like a youngish Herbert Hoover, was not feeling his usual cheery self. His father had died the week before...
Calcium flares floating on the sea-surface guided the rescue ships through the dark to the scene of the disaster. Like a troop of cavalry under the command of Rear Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves aboard his flagship Pennsylvania, the light cruisers Memphis, Richmond, Concord, Cincinnati swung up into position, dropped lifeboats. Within an hour 81 officers and crew had been safely bundled aboard the rescue ships. But long before the last survivor had been picked up all that was left of the $4,000,000 Macon, its chief radio operator and a Filipino mess boy had been swallowed...
...second year. When Franklin Roosevelt became President, he scorned this Old Deal agency for many a month, allowed it to lapse almost out of sight. When he finally got around to coordinating it into his recovery program, he discovered it was one of the most useful agencies at his command. In 1934 he got Congress to continue it for a third year and last week Mr. Jones was watching the House renew its charter for two years more...
Washington, Feb. 6--Men with "mud on their boots" were in complete command of the AAA tonight after a personal purge turned out half a dozen of the "brain trust" element...