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...seized the huge craft as enemy property, renamed her Leviathan, rebuilt her as a troop transport. In ten trips she carried 95,000 A. E. F. troops to France, brought 80,000 home. Awarded to the U. S. under the Versailles Treaty, she was reconditioned as an oil-burner in 1922 at a cost of $8,000,000. Returned to transatlantic passenger service in 1923 by the U. S. Shipping Board, she turned up huge losses, spent much of her time at her Hoboken pier...
Despite French and Italian troop movements to the borders and the recent flare-up over Lithuanian treatment of Nazi agitators, European nations have settled into a state of suspended animation, largely due to Sir John Simon's visit to Germany. Again Britain, much to the dissatisfaction of her former allies, is playing her historic role of mediator and preserver of the balance of power. One of the most favorable signs in the present imbroglio has been the enthusiastic reception given by the German populace to Britain's part as the "honest broker...
Sourest of Germans on Joy Day were group leaders of the ordinary S. A. Storm Troops, long since fallen from the Führer's favor. They now seem destined to brownshirt oblivion as a new Nazi Army bursts out into field grey under Reichswehr officers of War renown (see p. 23). Last week smart Adolf Hitler, when he decided to make the Great News, first ordered S. A. Storm Troop leaders to hurry from all parts of the Fatherland to the town in which he knew they could make least trouble. Oberammergau. There, after the news broke, passion...
Since every prominent Nazi must have his thundering Mercedes, every Storm Troop leader must have at the least his shiny motorcycle, and since German taxpayers take care of the cost, Adolf Hitler rightly feels that he has hit on a wholly original and potent weapon for subjugating unemployment. But Der führer's heart- that Great Heart so much publicized in the Reich-yearns to give little cars to little men such as he once was. Facing the silk-hatted Corps Diplomatique almost defiantly, Herr Hitler fairly roared: "We are going to solve the problem of the cheap...
Calcium flares floating on the sea-surface guided the rescue ships through the dark to the scene of the disaster. Like a troop of cavalry under the command of Rear Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves aboard his flagship Pennsylvania, the light cruisers Memphis, Richmond, Concord, Cincinnati swung up into position, dropped lifeboats. Within an hour 81 officers and crew had been safely bundled aboard the rescue ships. But long before the last survivor had been picked up all that was left of the $4,000,000 Macon, its chief radio operator and a Filipino mess boy had been swallowed...