Word: maneuverability
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As the sun popped its red head over the San Bernardino Mountains early one morning last week, the main strength of the U.S. Fleet stood out of San Pedro and San Diego harbors, went nodding up the California coast with torpedo-shaped, mine-cutting paravanes hung from every grey prow...
Sop. "Simply one maneuver in the steady retreat of the New Deal Administration before the silver gang," said the New York Herald Tribune. And most disinterested observers agreed that the President had jacked up the price of silver principally to forestall a silverite assault in Congress. However it was a...
A few days later Beals's uncertainty shone even more brightly in an interview with swart, little Strong Man Fulgencio Batista. "I can never become President," said this onetime Cuban Army sergeant. "The people cannot be deprived of their politics. But if we were to hold elections soon they...
In the Japanese Diet nervous politicians have also been asking what General Doihara is doing in China. In effect Foreign Minister Koki Hirota, author of Japan's notorious Twenty-One Demands on China a generation ago, has been obliged to admit that the Japanese Army has sent General Doihara...
As far as the immediate operation of his own flagship is concerned, an Admiral is little more than a passenger. The Hood's behavior was none of Admiral Bailey's business. The sole questions were: 1) Had he given proper and sufficient signals for the maneuver? 2) Was...