Word: chief
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Accompanied by Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces, and Heinrich Himmler, Chief of Secret Police, Victor Hitler drove through the wreckage to a reviewing stand set up in the least damaged part of the city, the diplomatic sector. There he stood from 12:30 until 2:30 as picked troops goose-stepped past...
...knot pace when members of the crew heard an airplane. The plane circled around, shot bursts of machine-gun fire into the air. Captain F. C. P. Harris stopped ship. A "warship" came up from nowhere, hove to, ordered the men into four boats, captured Captain Harris and his chief engineer, took still and moving pictures of the victims and their craft, and then "fired 25 shots into the Clement and finally torpedoed...
...sharp-eyed survivor notwithstanding, there was considerable doubt at week's end that the attacker could have been the Admiral Scheer. Chief substantiating circumstance was the presence of an airplane. But a cruiser might have launched it. Fishiest point of all was the 25 shots she was said to have fired. One shot from the Admiral Scheer's secondary battery of 5.9-inch guns could have put a hole as big as a room in the Clement; and one from her 11-inchers a hole as big as a house...
...single ship towing two cables held away from its bow and deep in the water by "paravanes" (torpedo-shaped bodies with wings and pontoons and cutter). Method No. 2 is slower: the trawler travels an average of twelve knots and the path swept is only about 200 yards. Chief drawback of method No. 1 is breakage of the sweeper cable...
Twelve U. S. correspondents were authorized to go. For the New York Herald Tribune Edward Angly replaced Ralph Waldo Barnes, who underwent an operation for gallstones last fortnight, was still in hospital. To London by Atlantic Clipper Hearst's International News Service rushed William Chaplin when Chief Correspondent William Hillman resigned to become European Manager for Collier...