Word: fleetly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sailors of Cattaro (by Friedrich Wolf; Theatre Union, producer). In January 1918, a section of the Austrian Imperial Fleet cowered in the Adriatic's Bay of Cattaro. Superior British warships had knocked the Austrian seamen groggy every time they ventured out to fight in their decrepit craft. Bad food, bad news, bad treatment had utterly demoralized the sailors at Cattaro. Encouraged by food riots and strikes by the War-weary proletariat ashore, the seamen mutinied. Playwright Wolf, a German Communist whom Adolf Hitler chased into Russia, has built a strapping propagandist melodrama out of the Cattaro incident. And, like...
...necessary for our purpose of establishing peace in the Far East, Japan will gobble up Northern China for that purpose, and we will do so regardless of what the other powers say! If America tries to keep Japan from becoming an imperialistic nation, America will have to send her fleet to the Far East...
...Mclntyre, like most of the White House assistants, is an ex-newshawk. During the War he helped handle Navy press relations, afterwards worked for Roosevelt in the 1920 campaign. Later he mooned around the Navy press room, tried to peddle freelance stories on the plight of the fighting fleet. From Pathe Newsreel Louis Howe got him back for the pre-convention campaign in 1932. A genial fellow whose hollow cheeks and sunken eyes belie his good disposition, Marvin Mclntyre made himself valuable as Franklin Roosevelt's contact, first, with the Press, later with politicians and bigwigs. He lingers perpetually...
Between them long-armed John H. Herrick, center, and fleet William W. Shirk, right forward, contributed all but eight of the home team points...
First news of the battle was broadcast by Germany, whose fleet got back to Wilhelmshaven 24 hours before Jellicoe's sea-dogs limped in to their base at Scapa Flow. By the time the British Admiralty got around to contradicting the German report, Englishmen and the world at large were inclined to think that Germany had had the better of it. As far as damage goes, official figures still support their claim-British losses: 14 ships (112,000 tons), 6,094 men; German losses: 11 ships (60,000 tons), 2,551 men. But German Admiral Scheer was first...