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...reticent, secretive, reserved" and that he deliberately withheld information from his monarch. On one occasion he wrote to Premier Asquith asking him to tell Reginald McKenna, then First Lord of the Admiralty, now Chairman of the Midland Bank, that it was "his duty to keep His Majesty informed of fleet movements, to say nothing of common courtesy...
Capitalized at $1,000,000 by Henry Ford, Edsel Ford and a few others of their organization, the Companhia Ford Expansao Industriale de Brazil agrees to plant a portion of the entire acreage in rubber every year until the whole jungle is industrialized. A fleet of steamships will make regular trips from the U. S. to Brazil. In time, a fleet of airplanes will do likewise...
Lieutenant Myers also pointed out the importance of radio in naval operations, when either distance or the roar of big guns makes all other forms of signalling or communication inadequate, if not impossible. The radio officer of a fleet or line vessel therefore has the success of a naval operation depending to a large degree upon his department...
...spectator the Dartmouth game means an exciting spectacular contest. To the Harvard player it means a clean hard fought game in which sudden off tackle plays, and powerful end runs require herculean defensive efforts and in which the fear of long forward passes caught by fleet, sure fingered ends is ever present...
...perhaps the greatest team Dartmouth ever had hesitated until Harvard had established a 3 to 0 lead in the first quarter, and then proceeded under a storm of forward passes from Oberlander to his fleet ends, Lally and Sage, to swamp the bewildered Crimson team by piling up 32 points. This game started Dartmouth off to a season which left it the only undefeated and untied team of the season. Last year A. E. French '29 dashed 48 yards in the last minute to a touchdown and victory to end one of the most exciting games ever played...