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Captain Arthur Japy Hepburn met the Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1918 at Queenstown, Ireland, where he was commanding a U-Boat-chasing outfit of college boys. Rear Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn became a warm friend of the senior Senator from Virginia in 1932 at the Geneva Disarmament Conference, where he was naval adviser to the U. S. Delegation. Last week off San Diego, where he was commanding the U. S. Scouting Force in maneuver's, Vice Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn got word that those two old acquaintances, one now the President...
...standard. Leaving Governor Norman to sun his silvery beard in Bar Harbor, newshawks instantly checked the whereabouts of the most important U. S. financiers. John Pierpont Morgan was grouse-shooting in Scotland, was reported to have had a secret conference with Governor Norman just before the Britannic left Cobh (Queenstown). Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve was at his country place in Mt. Kisco, N. Y. Attention came to sharp focus when Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lamont was discovered at North Haven, Me., only 35 miles from Bar Harbor. Two grave problems might have brought Governor Norman across...
...headed for the trouble. In the rocky sea it took all day long to throw a line between the Nautilus and the Wyoming. By dark the hawser was snug and, as other ships turned to their proper business, the Wyoming began an 850-mi. tow of the Nautilus to Queenstown, Ireland and repairs...
...commanded a landing party of bluejackets and marines that was landed in San Domingo to safeguard American and foreign interests during a revolution. He saw service in the Gulf of Mexico in 1904 and commanded the Destroyer Tucker, which was in the second group to reach Queenstown, Ireland, in May, 1917, and operated from Queenstown and later on escort duty in the North Atlantic. In June, 1929, after two years spent in Central American waters, he was detached from command of the U. S. S. Cleveland and assigned to duty at Harvard. He has had two tours of duty...
Three thousand miles is the ship or train distance between San Diego, Calif., and Guayaquil, Ecuador (where President-Elect Hoover was last week, see p. 10), between Manhattan and Queenstown, Ireland, between Washington and San Francisco. Trains or ships join those traveled places in a few days. Getting to the trackless Poles takes months...