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...from sailing for the conference on the S. S. Bremen, world's fastest liner. "Tomorrow I lunch at the Embassy with Mr. Dawes," radioed Clown Rogers on reaching London. Another Rogersgram: "The American delegation arrived this afternoon and went into conference at the American bar and sunk a fleet of schooners without warning...
Nine weeks ago to the huge relief of many a Washington official, the Soviet Government purchased 25 vessels of the U. S. board's dilapidated wartime fleet, ordered them made speedily ready for service. Wasting no time, 60 Red sailors and their officers arrived in Boston last week, ready to take over the first two ships to leave drydock. The sailors were quartered in the slightly sanctimonious St. Mary's House for Sailors, operated by Archdeacon Ernest J. Dennen of the Episcopal City Mission of Boston. Officers were sent to the slightly more pretentious Crawford house. When...
Elco, offering a standardized line since the Chicago World Fair (1893) showed a fleet of six slow, safe, comfortable family cruisers, including the "Honeymoon Special...
Kellogg Pact to make it the basis for cutting her cruiser fleet from 70 to 50 ship?, which she is now ready to do according to an official statement earlier in the week by First Lord of the Admiralty Albert V. Alexander. The MacDonald memorandum threw cold water on the Tardieu proposal for a Mediterranean pact, and sidestepped the French project for a stronger League of Nations with the remark that the Kellogg Pact and the League Covenant may be considered "complementary." Ships...
...scene changes to Fleet Street; young Bolt has got a job on a newspaper, finds journalism's ways at first rich and strange. Then we go with his friend Maynard, a traveling correspondent, to Novobambia, fever-ridden jungle country whose mineral riches the chancellories of Europe are scheming to keep away from each other. Even out here the threat of war is heavy in the air. When Maynard comes home he is sent off to Ireland, which seems on the verge of rebellion; but when a shot is fired in a little Balkan town the journalists hurry home...