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...north of Hanover (see cuts). Anti-aircraft fire kept the photographers of Wilhelmshaven (fast, long-nosed Blenhelms) at least 12,000 ft. aloft but the picture reveals at (1) a capital ship, the Gneisenau or Scharnhorst, in Jade Bay; at (2) a set of new locks under construction to connect the inner ship basin with the outer harbor proper, formed by a long new mole (between 1 and 2). Locks are needed because, in the spring, tides here rise 11½ ft. A corner of Wilhelmshaven's great shipyards is just visible on the lower right...
...evidence makes it clear that in certain essential particulars Roosevelt left his friend to face the music. T. R.'s liberalism had somehow avoided the high tariff; Taft had to cope with that. T. R. had swung the big stick against the trusts; Taft had to make it connect. T. R. had been supple enough to play politics with a conservative Congress without seeming to do so; Taft had to temper Uncle Joe Cannon and was promptly accused of bowing to him. T. R.'s bouncing spirit rode the ground swell of the Progressive movement; Taft...
Here on island (O connect for all points of your travel...
...unwilling to split hairs with Mr. Ickes, but he persists in abusing facts so as to connect me falsely with power monopoly...
...bazaars buzzed and beards wagged at the announcement that Kings Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia and Farouk of Egypt had agreed to install infidel gadgets, running water and electric light, in the ancient cities of Mecca and Medina, and to build modern highways along the pilgrim routes which now connect them with the outside world. The innovations should stimulate the pilgrim trade on which both cities depend, which will redound to the greater glory of Ibn Saud, Farouk and Allah...