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Navy: Fifty-five ships of the Asiatic fleet, none larger than a cruiser, are commanded by Admiral C. S. Williams from his flagship, the armored cruiser Pittsburgh, at Shanghai. The destroyers Peary, Edsall and McCormick with the gunboats Sacramento and Asheville were also at Shanghai last week. At Hankow were the Isabel, Palos, Pigeon, Villalobos, Pope and Truxtun, under the immediate command of Rear Admiral Henri Hughes Hough. One warship each was standing by at Ichang, Chungking, Kiukiang, Nanking, Foochow, Canton, Wuhu, Bias Bay and Chinkiang. Ten destroyers and twelve submarines were ready at Manila, whence the destroyer Stewart sailed...
Puffed and prideful, Signor Director General Marini telegraphed news of his superpatriotic Commandments to II Duce at Rome, In reply came the silence of consent. Other school superintendents throughout Italy hastened to command little lips and tongues to drill as at Milan...
...speeding in his car. The Magistrate let him off with a double fine; assured him of eight days' prison for a second offense. He, son of my sister Clara, is studying to be a diplomat. As his uncle is French Ambassador to Austria, his father General in Command of French troops in Morocco, and as he is also descended from La Fayette, perhaps he will make good...
...Young has conquered the Catalina channel and as a result found himself the most talked of person in America. Gertrude Ederle, a few months ago, found herself in a similar position. Red Grange and how many others have found that because of unusual athletic ability they are able to command salaries that would seem fabulous to a college professor and are not equaled by the majority of capable and efficient business men. We aren't belittling their achievements, which are without doubt the result of hard work and ability, but it does seem to be evidence of an unhealthy attitude...
...final choice of the prize-winners will be made by a Board consisting of three distinguished writers. They are Henry Seidel Canby, Editor of "The Saturday Review of Literature" Elinor Wylie, author of "The Orphan Angel," and William McFee, author of "Command" and "Casuals...