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...seems awfully queer," said Alice, glancing over the morning news, "that in this section it says Hitler wants peace, and over here it says the Fuehrer has ordered a bigger army, and more battleships and a greater air fleet and more submarines...
...objected on the same grounds, permitted its first cinemansion (TIME, Nov. 17, 1930). Last week, Winchester, last town in Massachusetts where movies were still prohibited, weakened also. In a special referendum, with more voters than the last election, after school children had paraded and both sides used a fleet of cars to carry voters to the polls, 2,475 Winchester citizens voted for, 1,717 against, allowing moving pictures...
Scene of the operations, Secretary Swanson told newshawks, would be the Puget Sound-Alaska-Hawaii "triangle." Contrary to pacifists' beliefs, the fleet would at no time approach within 2,000 mi. of Japanese territory or the Japanese fleet. Furthermore, on May 3, simultaneously with the beginning of the maneuvers. Admiral Frank Brooks Upham, commander-in-chief of the Asiatic Fleet, would steam into Yokohama harbor on his flagship Augusta for a "good will" visit. While this year's Pacific maneuvers involve the greatest tonnage since the War, the Secretary pointed out that the Navy has more tonnage available...
...spite of the fact that the Asiatic Fleet makes an annual courtesy call on some Japanese city every year, U. S. pacifists still retained their gloomy forebodings, recalled that the Maine's ill-fated "courtesy call" at Havana in 1898 precipitated the Spanish...
...Admiral Stefan Makaroff, commanding the Russian fleet in the Pacific, was the hero of a celebrated marine catastrophe when he went down with his ship in one of the early battles of the war with Japan. His son, Vadim Stefan Makaroff, first arrived in the U. S. in 1917 as assistant naval attache at Washington, returned to help Admiral Kolchak fight the Bolsheviks. Back in the U. S. in 1921 to get a job. he worked for Midwest Refining Co., helped introduce the diamond drill, perfected a system of freezing orange juice in paper containers, organized Makaroff & Co. which became...