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...After the 1930 classes of Italian and French cruisers are completed, neither nation will build destroyers of more than 6.1-inch gun calibre, but France and Italy will each build two "Pocket Dread-naughts" of 23,333 tons, copying in this respect the famed German Ersatz Preussen (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928), hailed by naval experts as the world's most efficient small war boat...
President Hoover last week accepted one great national issue and helped build up another. He accepted the Insurgents' challenge on the Power issue by vetoing the Muscle Shoals Bill. His pocket veto of the Wagner Bill to reform the Federal employment service loomed like a big square target for Democrats to shoot...
This week the Treasury was winding up one of its quarterly financing programs which was larger than usual. Such transactions in March, June, September and December are designed not so much to raise additional cash from the money world as to shift the Government's obligations from one pocket to another...
...vest-pocket three-column newspaper complete with headlines such as "Baby to be President of Country says father" (for David Van Camp, Son of the Akron Times-Press' Sunday Editor...
Producing from his pocket a dynamite bomb, the soldier slid it gingerly into the 4-inch pipe, lowered it slowly until it reached what felt like the bottom of the pipe. At 4:25 a. m. he lit the fuse...