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...midnight last week the battle was on when Washington flashed a "state of war" warning to the Blue fleet. With lights out and radio silent it moved across the Gulf of Panama in search of the enemy. The Blue's eagle-eyed destroyers were in the lead, the Los Angeles overhead and flagship Arkansas in the rear. Fanwise the Blue spread itself out protectively up and down the coast. At sunrise 36 hours later, scouting planes made their first con tact with the Black fleet moving shoreward in two sections. The old Arkansas, with the heat 133° in her engine...
...three years ago when she moved to St.Paul where her brother, Benjamin Wright Scandrett, famed railroad lawyer, is vice president of Northern Pacific. Another brother, Henry Alexander Scandrett, is president of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Co.For two years Mrs. Burt and her brothers have been quietly, diligently searching for Horace, onetime student in Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Their search availed them nothing. Finally they resorted to the hope that Horace, who had been a thoroughgoing Post reader, would chance to stumble upon himself in the magazine's back pages...
...work will be the fourteenth produced by the Metropolitan in its search for a lasting U. S. opera. Unlike most operas, this one was instigated by the librettist. Richard Leroy Stokes felt the creative urge when he was still writing sharp musical criticisms for the New York Evening World. He wrote a libretto in a combination of rhymed and unrhymed verse, dedicated it to his exotic-looking wife, then asked Director Howard Hanson of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester to write the music, please. Composer Hanson is now more than half done...
Twelve Miles. Outside the three-mile limit (indisputedly U. S. domain) lies the twelve-mile limit, claimed by the U. S. for "search & seizure" under the 1922 Tariff Act. Forty-eight hours after the Josephine K. shelling, F. A. Bierkett, executive officer of the Coast Guard cutter Sebago, was ordered by Washington to determine the point at which the chase ended. His findings narrowly justified Mate Schmidt; the spot was fixed at 11.7 mi. from nearest land...
...them that the first speculative opportunities will be found, and that is why the United States, according to reports, has recently canceled European credits already decided upon in principle and also withdrawn funds from this side. In acting thus, the United States is endeavoring to attract foreign capital in search of remuneration...