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...France, Belgium, England and the U. S., heaping glory, poetry and publicity upon 25-year-old Captain Charles Augustus Lindbergh, found him so natural and so tactful that they predicted he would never unmake his fame. Was not the same immortality predicted for 61-year-old Admiral George Dewey...
...told last week with infectious gusto how, as Commander of the destroyer Noa, he had ordered the bombardment of Nanking (TIME, April 4) in order to save the lives of the U. S. Consul and other U. S. citizens beseiged in the city. The spectre of Commodore Dewey, and his ringing command, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley!" kindled in the correspondents' imagination as their pencils raced to take down the words of hearty, beaming Lieutenant Commander Smith...
Soon it was ascertained that "Benny" is Lieutenant Benjamin F. Staud of Pittsburgh, who pulled the lanyard firing the first U. S. gun to send a shell spinning over Nanking. Commodore Dewey's "Gridley" was Charles Vernon Gridley of Logansport...
...pioneer, who renouncing even the fragments of European culture remaining on the sea-board sought an outlet for his restless vigor in the conquest of the wilderness. The frontier vanished; industrialism offered a new channel for his boundless energies. The pioneer became the business man. Pragmatists like James and Dewey, mistaking a means for an end, furnished him a philosophy. The utilitarian process was complete...
Where did this bolder picture of the Associated Press appear? Where but in that kraut-liveried castigator of every U. S. folly, real and imaginary; in the American Mercury. The leading article in that magazine's April issue, by City Editor Dewey M. Owens of the Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal, must have caused pain to Kent Cooper, present A. P. manager, and his colleagues, especially since the American Mercury had published an article the month before, entitled "Think Stuff Not Wanted," which exposed an attitude of blatant flippancy toward foreign affairs in a news service called, for poisonous anonymity...