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...these words: "Seventy years ago [when President Hindenburg was ten] the then young North German Lloyd launched its first vessel for trans-Atlantic service. It gave the craft the name of Bremen. . . . Now it is our wish to give this newest and largest vessel of Germany's revived fleet to its elements. . . . I hail the Bremen and the Europa as new links between Europe and America. I hail them as manifestations of the indestructible German capacity for work. ... I christen thee Bremen!" One of the two new links between Europe and America was shattered last week, at a single...
...mannerisms and probably his thoughts are deliberate. A most annoying habit is to speak to subordinates in tones so low that only by straining can they hear. The Emperor Napoleon was at times similarly guilty. Indeed as Der Herr Direktor sits at his very big desk - autocratically directing a fleet of 174 vessels totaling 731,688 tons - he is not without a wholly German and quite paradoxical resemblance to the French "Little Corporal." Frugal and precise of tongue, his only recent public utterance was badgered out of him by reporters who wanted to know what the N. G. L. meant...
...building Huskies and other training planes favored by U.S. military forces, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. has attained high rank. President R. H. Fleet and associate executives have recently formed the Fleet Aircraft Corp. to manufacture Huskies, renamed Fleets, for civilian purchase...
...apparently issuing from the lips of Corinne Griffith, "You'll Take the High Road and I'll Take the Low." Except for such occasional bathos, and for an effective sound accompaniment of guns and waves, this picture is silent, and the Admiral's orders to his fleet ("England expects every man will do his duty") and his last words to his aide ("Kiss me, Hardy") are shown in written titles borrowed from history and from the novel by E. Barrington. Victor Varconi as a handsome Nelson, H. B. Warner as a subtle cuckold, act well in episodes...
...Died. Fleet Admiral Viscount Ryokei Inouye, 84, veteran Japanese naval officer, onetime guest student at the U.S. Naval Academy (class of 1881); of liver disease; in Tokyo...