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...this as in most other sham encounters of the Navy, the real loser was the U. S. Treasury. Washington officials were not surprised when John A. Park, Editor of the Raleigh (N. C.) Daily Times, who "covered" the Caribbean war game for the Associated Press, wired...
Alfred Paul Friedrich von Tirpitz was born in Kustrin, Prussia, in 1849. At the age of 16 he became a cadet in the so-called Royal Prussian Navy, which then consisted of a handful of sham frigates.* In 1897, by steady regular promotion he had become German Naval Secretary and an intimate friend of the Kaiser. In 1900 his "von" was registered in the Almanach de Gotha. In 1911 he was appointed Grand Admiral, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. All this time, with the Kaiser's enthusiastic approval he was turning British sea lords livid by building...
...strikes in Southern mills, were opposed to forceful tactics, but were ready and willing, if necessary, to "fight for their right to organize." The radical National Textile Workers Union jeered this conservative proposal, charged the A. F. of L. with selling out strikes, called its whole Southern program a sham...
Friends of Dr. Curtius were sorry that his first appearance as Foreign Minister was in what amounted to a sham battle which he could not lose. He served as a battery commander 1914-18, is the first man with a combatant war record to become Foreign Minister of the Republic...
...southern hemisphere's spring sun was warming Antarctica to almost zero temperature last week. Bands of spectral light bunted the grey ice plateaux with sham festivity. The fringe of sea ice along the continent's frigid hem was softening. Soon four parties of explorers could be poking about the continent...