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After four months' battle drill in the Caribbean, the bulk of the U. S. fleet- 67 men-o'-war-last week assembled at the entrance to New York harbor. At dawn a great line of sea power, ten miles long, began to thread its way up the bay into the Hudson River. The procession was led by the California, the Navy's No. 1 capital ship carrying Admiral Louis McCoy Nulton, commander-in-chief of the Battle Fleet, followed by the West Virginia, Maryland, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico. Next came the cruisers: Detroit, Marblehead, Raleigh, Richmond...
There was more ogling at Buckingham Palace. The biggest crowd since His Majesty's nearly fatal pneumonia (TIME, Dec. 3, 1928, et seq.) began to gather outside the tall iron fence not long after dawn. About 8 a. m. a rumor escaped mysteriously from the Palace that the Sovereign had risen from his Royal and Imperial bed. Half an hour later he and Queen Mary were said, on the high authority of a scullery maid, to be eating savory kippers. About 9 a. m. the patient, patriotic crowd learned that "the King is examining congratulatory telegrams and cablegrams from...
...Came the dawn and soon afterward the Negroes, strapping, ink-black Somalis. They shouldered up to the English phalanx, which did not budge. Eye to eye whites and blacks glared, job-hungry...
...Brice Goldsborough, expert of Pioneer Instrument Co., was navigator on Mrs. Frances Grayson's amphibian Dawn which was lost between New York and Newfoundland at the start of a trans-Atlantic flight (TIME...
...chill London dawn broke on Covent Garden last week and disclosed a sight other than the wholesale display of artichokes, turnips, lettuce, peas. Outside the shabby old opera house which today stands in the centre of the market district, a queue of patient men and women had formed. Wise ones had brought camp stools, rolls, coffee, to wait as comfortably as possible to buy their seats for the opening of London's opera and social season. At 7 p. m. those fortunate enough to have gained admission were gawking excitedly at the entrance of three princesses into the Royal...