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...Both the Dollar and the United States lines surpass it in tonnage and revenue. But the Roosevelt Line is rapidly developing into a competitor to be reckoned with by the two older giants. Kermit Roosevelt, son of Theodore the Great, organized the Roosevelt Line in 1920 to operate a fleet of ships to India for the Shipping Board. In 1926 he took into the company two widely known young shipping men: John M. Franklin, whose father heads International Mercantile Marine Co., and Basil Harris. The Line is now negotiating for a trans-Atlantic mail contract between Baltimore and Norfolk...
...many a British journalist a U. S, reporter is a creature who chews black cigars, speaks to ladies without removing his hat, stoops to anything for the sake of a story. Many a U. S. newspaper man has a vague idea that the denizens of Fleet street are seedy essayists whose physiognomy entirely lacks a news-nose...
...stodginess that sends a reporter out to interview a dozen eminent and nationally-busy people on 'Should kissing under the mistletoe be abolished?' If that is the extent of original ideas that can be created in a newspaper office, the newspapers of the Hawaiian Islands* have got Fleet street beat...
...European nations would be powerless to make a successful attack on the United States itself," said Rear Admiral W. S. Sims, U. S. N. (retired) in an informal talk to members of Naval Science classes in the Old Fogg lecture room yesterday afternoon. Admiral Sims explained that an invading fleet which had captured, for example, Montauk Point, would soon exhaust its fuel cruising to escape American submarines, and that its airplane carriers would be ineffectual against the superior numbers of the defending air fleet, which would stage a bombing at its leisure. "The best the invaders could do," said...
...when clad in unpressed tweeds and rumpled coat; canes are permissable on Park Avenue but are decidedly not correct in Harvard Square; he wears spats under no conditions. His hat is rumpled and decadent, giving a touch of elan to an otherwise spotless appearance. The typical specie has a fleet of luxurious motor cars, one for every mood, and a charge account at the leading night clubs in a half-dozen cosmopolitan cities...