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...Commander Castro put their crews of 24 men in chains in the destroyer's bow and sank the trawlers. Ten miles east of British-owned Gibraltar, at 2:15 a.m., just when Commander Castro thought he had successfully eluded his enemies, the 8-inch guns of the Rightist cruiser Canarias began to boom out of the dark. Soon three Rightist destroyers joined the attack...
Thus one day last week did Franklin Roosevelt, who has often told correspondents what to write, seize an opportunity to report on himself. His cruiser, U. S. S. Houston lay anchored off Albemarle Island, largest of Ecuador's twelve-island Galapagos group...
...last week the British cruiser Orion was anchored in Kingston Harbor; special police and militia were stationed at every street corner with riot guns and tear gas. At the end of the day 52 people had been killed, some 70 more badly injured-but not in fighting. The front engine of a five-car, two-engine train on the Jamaica Central Railway, packed with Kingston citizens going to the country for the Liberation Day weekend, left the rails going up a steep grade outside Balaclava. The rear engine kept going, pushed the front engine over an embankment, piled four...
...cares of the Presidency, to its rollers the carking complications of politics. Behind for a while lay the names of Barkley, Thomas, Adams, McCarran, McAdoo. Ahead lay marlin, sailfish, tuna, albacore, and the wild wahoo. His secretaries put away a sheaf of delivered speeches. His fishing aides aboard the cruiser Houston unpacked a trunkful of rods, reels and tackle. Instead of shining paragraphs for the electorate, now there would be shining spoons, dancing feathers for big fish. While Harry Hopkins administered work relief to the unemployed at home, the very much employed President would get no-work relief...
Twelve-hour curfew was enforced in Jerusalem. Haifa, Jaffa and Tel Aviv. The British battle-cruiser Repulse steamed into Haifa Harbor, landed marines. Eleven air squadrons stood by for bombing work. From Egypt arrived 1,600 British soldiers. With violence continuing, the British ordered the nth Hussars, an armored-car regiment, from Egypt to reinforce the 10,000 soldiers, police and constabulary...