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...Bridgeman revealed that Oath Swearer Collard would be compulsorily retired as "unfit for high command,"* whereas the two officers convicted of technical misconduct in complaining against him will receive fresh commands at sea, "as soon as vacancies appear." A fresh sensation stirred when one of the officers slated for reinstatement, Commander H. M. Daniel, abruptly resigned from the Royal Navy, last week, and joined the staff of the newspaper which has been loudest in his defense, the Daily Mail...
Pole dash, World War flier, second in command of the ill-fated Shackleton expedition to the South Pole-induced the American Geographical Society and the Detroit Aviation Society to back an east-to-west flight over the North Pole. This was before either Byrd or Amundsen reached the Pole from Spitzbergen...
...COMMAND TO LOVE-Any portfolio in a storm is the principle that leads an unprincipled diplomat into a lady's boudoir (TIME...
...COMMAND TO LOVE-How a diplomat mixes business with somewhat ardent pleasure (TIME...
Arctic Mummies (American Museum of Natural History). Under the leadership of Dr. Frank Michler Chapman, the famed polar ship Morrissey (Captain R. A. Bartlett in command) is now on its way among the Aleutian Islands, off Alaska, to collect sea otters and sea birds...