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...Indianapolis was hardly out in deep water before its wireless began to crackle irritably with messages from Washington. The President was seriously annoyed by Secretary Swanson's impromptu sound-off on the White House steps. The Navy's chief well knew there was no connection between his cruise to the Pacific and the Cuban crisis. He ceased his happy strutting long enough to radio a public message to his Washington office : "A wholly erroneous interpretation has been given to my trip. This trip to the west Coast was planned, as every one knows, a month ago. ... I told...
Another kind of pilot was at the controls of a blazing plane over France one night last week, on the regular Paris-Marseilles mail run. The wireless operator went over the side but the pilot pumped his extinguisher until he had put out the fire. Then he flew on to Lyons; the wireless operator caught up by train...
...Groton friend. Not even the Navy Department knew the position of the Indianapolis from day to day. The cruiser ploughed swiftly toward Annapolis, drawing to a close the 15-day Presidential vacation which had provided little real respite from public affairs. By means of the Indianapolis' high powered wireless, he was even now less than a minute from London. When he steamed up Chesapeake Bay other work & other worry hurried to meet him. To talk Recovery a Cabinet party consisting of Attorney General Cummings, Secretaries Swanson, Ickes, Dern and Roper was waiting to be taken aboard the cruiser, whose...
...musical pictures. Those in which Maurice Chevalier is directed by Ernst Lubitsch are for metropolitan consumption. The others, of which this is a fair sample, contain as many radio clowns and crooners as possible, are intended to delight rural cinemaddicts whose tastes in diversion have been shaped by wireless. Thus, College Humor contains George Burns and Gracie Allen...
Callers on Pilot Francis Monroe Hawks in the Manhattan offices of Texas Co. last week were announced in a curious manner. The reception clerk would turn to a telegraph key, buzz the name and business of the caller in wireless code. From his inner office Commander Hawks would buzz a reply. Reason: preparatory to a 25,000-mi. flight over the Pan American Airways network he is brushing up on his radio...