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Seventy miles off San Pedro, Calif., targets simulated an enemy fleet. Above them at 6,000 feet coursed real airplanes which trailed behind them great cloth funnels to be used as targets...
Then the President sent to the Senate the name of Thomas F. Woodlock. "He lives in New York," cried Senators from the South. The President could not deny it. "He is a financier, a director of the Pere Marquette Railroad and the St. Louis-San Francisco. He writes for The Wall Street Journal, and even edited it once," cried Western Radicals. The President did not deny this. He even let it be known that Mr. Woodlock owed his appointment to his experience as a financier. The biggest problem now before...
...Recently, reports from San Diego, whether originating in the fertile brain of the press, or having some basis in fact, related how the great warships of the U. S., plowing the Pacific, encountered a school of whales, and, eager to find targets for their gunnery, released from their guns the steely messengers of death. The aim was true. Fragments of cetaceous blubber bounded high in the air. The school had learned its lesson. And The Christian Science Monitor commented: "War preparedness is bad enough in itself without adding thereto such barbarous activities...
...San Francisco, Calif...
This Dennett owned a chain of 17 restaurants which sprawled across the continent from Manhattan to San Francisco. People called him the "temperance proprietor," because the walls of his liquorless and gruesome eating places were adorned with texts from the Bible. The Lord Is My Shepherd, I Shall Not Want confronted those who had money enough to eat in Dennett's. Be Sure Your Sins Will Find You Out. Proprietor Dennett failed, in 1901, for $92,000. Most of his creditors were women and missionary societies. His asset was one $20 hand-me-down suit. But young Mr. Childs...