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...Houston, in those grim days the last heavy U.S. vessel left in the Far Pacific, was still full of fight; her crew had begun calling her the "Battleship Houston...
...declared tolerance "bunk," and said that "democracy would never succeed in America." The principal charge: that Miss Quinn had written on the blackboard six sentences out of a Jew-baiting leaflet, The First Americans. These sentences overgenerously credited Irish-Americans with killing the first Jap, sinking the first battleship, carrying out the first FT raid, bagging the first Jap plane, capturing the first German spy, winning the first presidential citation. She left out the anti-Semitic punch line, but her critics said the inference was obvious. She was suspended on charges of intolerance and un-Americanism...
Today's sole survivor of this scene on Dec. 6, 1941 had been no more than part of the background. But he had listened carefully. Last week, as Commander Schulz, soon to become executive officer of the battleship Indiana, he told the story to the Pearl Harbor Committee...
Among the 97 ships picked for the experiment were four antiquated battleships (Pennsylvania, Nevada, New York, Arkansas); the tired old carrier Saratoga] the elderly Japanese battleship Nagato, the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen...
...became a union lawyer, for over 20 years held his own in the rough & tumble of Norway's Labor politics. When the Germans invaded Norway, Lie, as Minister of Supply and Shipping, ordered the merchant marine into Allied ports, then fled with the Norwegian Government on a British battleship. Later his buxom wife Hjördis and his three daughters joined him in London, where he embarked on a new career-diplomacy...