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...consisted of the battleships New York, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, Arkansas, Tennessee, Colorado and West Virginia, nine 7,500-ton cruisers, 40 destroyers, 15 submarines, the aircraft carrier Langley and miscellaneous tender and supply ships. Lighter and swifter, the Black fleet was to try to cut through this heavy-hitting cordon of capital ships and ravage the coast. No troops were to be theoretically landed from transports for a permanent military invasion. The Black strength was to lie chiefly in the air. The Saratoga's and Lexington's bombers were assigned a "constructive" radius of 300 mi. beyond which...
...When do we eat? We want action!" screamed a score of Communists one night last week as they shoved past a police cordon into Manhattan's East 65th Street and took up a defiant stand before the brownstone house of President-elect Roosevelt. Being photographed on the steps of the house were five Senators and six Representatives, Democrats all, who had just arrived from Washington for a party conference with their national leader. The Communists shook fists, hooted, yelled. The Congressmen beat a quick retreat inside the Roosevelt home. The police with many a fisticuff and nightstick thwack cleared...
...been affiliated with the Guggenheim Brothers and John Hays Hammond. In 1911 he was associated with Herbert Clark Hoover in the successful flotation of unsuccessful Granville Mining Co., formed in London to acquire Yukon placer claims. Two years ago his mining work in Jugoslavia secured him the Grand Cordon of the Order of St. Sava. A buckaroo in business, his chief hobby is the collection of old illuminated manuscripts...
...appeared as a reception committee. "We'll hang Herbert Hoover to a sour apple tree!" cried the Reds. The business-like police conducted them to a new street, not yet opened to traffic, between a high bank and a railroad yard. There, inside a police cordon, the marchers were told to make themselves at home in their trucks. There was a food shortage. It was cold. The marchers jeered the police, waved their Red banners. Across the city they could see their objective-the Capitol's dome...
Railroader Willard, who usually brushes through the press cordon in the White House lobby with a curt "nothing-to-say," paused to reply...