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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...During World War I he told the Senate Military Affairs Committee that Army uniform specifications reeked, drew up new specifications, still in use, thereby won the Certificate of Distinguished Service from a grateful administration. In 1928 Krupp built him the Orion, then largest yacht afloat (333 ft.), and he began making periodic trips around the world, conducting his business by short-wave radio. His greatest ambition: to have his three living sons and son-in-law, all in his employ, keep up the Forstmann wool dynasty...
Last week U. S. powermen were frantically looking for plants with spare capacity to help out others whose capacities had already been overtaxed. They had already begun to give impressive orders for new equipment : $70,000,000 ordered since the war began. They were drafting specifications for perhaps as much as another $100,000,000, to be ordered before the end of the year...
...popularity in The Netherlands of the House of Orange has progressively improved since Prince Bernhard began taking pictures of his daughter Beatrix (born January 1938). Last week he boosted the popularity of the dynasty another notch by releasing a picture of Beatrix with her new sister Irene (born last August...
With such diverting thoughts, the Wolfs prisoners did not complain of the tropic heat that turned their filthy prison into a fetid Turkish bath, nor of their grim diet, nor of the dhobie itch and typhus brought aboard by Japanese prisoners, nor even of scurvy, which began to rot them on the voyage home, through a hurricane that left the Wolf leaking 40 tons of water an hour, through the ice-jammed Arctic and the dreaded North Sea blockade. Eventually they felt for Captain Nerger the respectful gratitude due a hero who had saved their lives...
These are the facts of that record. Since the war began, there has been a series of submarine alarms, all announced by the President, none of which has been confirmed by naval or other authorities. White House Press Secretary Stephen Early released a communication from Germany which called on all friends of Germany which called on all friends of Germany in the U.S. to help fight repeal of the arms embargo. The President has chosen to open the ports of the U.S to armed merchantmen of belligerent powers, while closing them to submarines. He has also given way drastically...