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Japan's Commander of the Combined Fleet Vice Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu arrived in Manchukuo's port of Dairen last week at the head of all the Emperor's war boats. Said he: "Manchukuo must build an ocean fleet when her finances are better...
...Contest." The spectator's fleet in Newport Harbor made it, said a destroyer captain, "worse than Shanghai Basin." Surrounded by every conceivable kind of ocean-going craft was a quorum of all the big yachts in U. S. waters. They trailed out toward a buoy nine miles southeast of Brenton's Reef Lightship for the start of the race. Among a fleet of 500 or more, were half a dozen ocean liners, two cruisers H. M. S. Dragon and U. S. S. Minneapolis, 20 or more Coast Guard cutters and Navy destroyers. The Committee boat had already signalled...
...back as fast as it could. But the Champlain could not get back in time to answer the SOS of the liner Morro Castle, save Madam Minister Owen and her benefactor the embarrassment of explaining to Delaware's Republican Senator Hastings why "the gem of the Coast Guard fleet was taken from its regular station near the scene of the disaster and sent on a needless junket...
Orders from Washington sent 30 Navy and Coast Guard boats and a fleet of private yachts scouring Massachusetts Bay for James Roosevelt, eldest son of the President. Nine hours later Sailor Roosevelt and six companions, blown off the course of a Gloucester-Provincetown race, put in at Portland, Me., in the yacht Black Arrow. Said Son James: "I don't know what there was to be upset over. The Black Arrow is as sound as a church. We just had a little blow and we hove...
...their spirits lower. Homosexuality grew to such an extent that one of the most outstanding perverts, who played the feminine lead in their amateur shows, was treated respectfully as a real woman, ''achieved the creation of a sort of salon." When one day the prisoners saw the U. S. fleet steaming past their island, they knew the War was lost. But they still had many weary months to wait. When Ex-Prisoner Kuncz finally got back to Hungary, "we got out of the train in Gyor and bought some horsemeat sausages, and I asked one of the station officials...