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...Institute ceremonies he unintentionally attained another distinction. In a ball room of evening clothes his was the only business suit, the only soft white shirt. The tuxedoes applauded him heartily, none more so than President Frederick Worthen Bradley of Alaska Juneau Mining Co., who also won a miner's & metallurgist's award...
...Fairly creaking under a heavy load of fuel, a four-year-old Fairchild monoplane named Miss U. S. S. Louisville lurched clumsily down the concrete runway of New York's Floyd Bennett Field, wobbled from side to side, finally skidded into the soft grass and wrecked its landing gear. Out of the cabin crawled two rueful young men with 80? in their pockets and a strange story to tell. They had just attempted a take-off "to Portugal." Both men-Frank Gushing and Andrew Soos Jr.-were sailors absent without leave from the U. S. S. Louisville which fortnight...
...That submarines be abolished (proposed by the U. S. and Britain with the covert hostility of Japan and other nations). Realistic, the Japanese attitude was to soft-soap everyone and let the Conference drag on for as long as the white men liked?months, years, or an even longer period which seemed to be envisioned by Japanese Delegate Tsuneo Matsudaira (the father-in-law of Japan's Crown Prince) in these words: "When all nations sincerely desire to become good and trusted friends, when all nations are prepared to discharge faithfully their domestic and international responsibilities, when all nations feel...
Punctually the curtain rang up. Japanese and Chinese officials charged each other with having violated the four-hour truce in various ways. As the shells began to scream again, as the roar of bombing planes played its soft prelude to the thunder of bombs, act II began, and the first actor to speak was Rear-Admiral Toma Uematsu. commander of the Japanese naval landing forces...
List: There is a lot of soft music with your report. Candidly now, Mr. Dyson, was not your entire statement just a grandstand play...