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...Scouting Force in maneuver's, Vice Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn got word that those two old acquaintances, one now the President of the U. S. and the other the Secretary of the Navy, had appointed him to be Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet, his country's No. 1 officer afloat...
...cylinders opposed horizontally instead of in a V), which sells for $16,000. A bus is only one unit in production figures, but $16,000 would buy 25 Chevrolet delivery wagons. A ten-ton Mack truck costs around $8,000 without body, a price which would purchase a sizable fleet of Dodges...
...Geneva correspondents this week that they had been used as cats-paws by the British Lion. The meat of these disclosures was that Premier Mussolini had convinced the British Admiralty that if oil or other crucial sanctions be applied he would loose his air bombs upon Britain's fleet in the Mediterranean, even though the Lion might have secured as allies all the cats in Eastern Europe...
...matter what may now be done about The Deal, two facts seemed basic: 1) the dispatch of the British Home Fleet to patrol the waters between Italy and Ethiopia (TIME, Sept. 30) acted like a blood transfusion in reviving the League of Nations; 2) the British display of readiness last week to consider dismemberment of Ethiopia as a possible and perhaps desirable solution was to the League of Nations like the bloodsucking caress of a vampire...
Thence by foot to fleet Street where I made merry at Devil tavern with much mutton and wine and heard loose gossip of the queen. By and by a strange drowsiness came upon me--I fear from too much mutton--and I did dream a most strange dream, one more fit to fall upon the mind of our prophetic Bacon than a poor Vagabond like...