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Dignified President Lebrun had key-noted at a luncheon preceding the thunder clouds: "Our merchant marine is regaining its full strength. A big commercial fleet is necessary in such a colonial empire as ours-scattered over the four corners of the earth...
Another mob, this one of out-&-out Communists, scrimmaged one night in Fleet Street with Sir Oswald Moseley and 100 of his black-shirted British Fascists. Police dispersed them...
...Vagabond had stemmed his way hither and yon in the breezes of August. A scene fished upon his inner eye,--the scene of two vessels, well out to sea, one a stately yacht, glistening with brass and pearly canvas, the other a grim, gray cutter of the revenue fleet. At the same moment a puff of white smoke escaped the muzzle of the signal gun on the prow of the cutter, and an instant later the towering schooner was headed into the wind, her tops' I canvas rattling like the sound of cannon on high...
...last summer War Lord Liu was popular with U. S. bluejackets whose ships lay anchored off his port. At the cry (in Chinese) of "The fleet's in!'', smart Liu extorted $100,000 mex. from Chefoo establishments most apt to be patronized by sailors. Pocketing perhaps half this money, Liu nevertheless spent at least $50.000 mex. to improve Chefoo's police force, to push his superb street paving program and to encourage his new Institute of Silk Culture. Liu, frankly a bandit who worked up into the roles of petty statesman and local philanthropist, had only one real fault during...
...took nearly four hours to pass through Multnomah Stadium. In the reviewing stand under heavy guard were Secretary of War Hurley who yelled "Yah-hoo!" when the Oklahoma delegation filed by, onetime Secretary of the Navy Daniels, Veterans' Administrator Hines, Admiral Leigh, commander-in-chief of the U. S. fleet, Oregon's Governor Meier and Portland's celebrated, bushy-browed Mayor Baker. In the line of march were clowns, drum-&-bugle corps, an automobile that had crossed the continent with the Bonus Expeditionary Force, a cage full of pretty girls on a truck, a French box car, lowans armed with...