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...cruiser Detroit swung into the Irish harbor of Kingstown last week, 40 bravely martial fortress guns went BOOM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Boom! | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...syncopater, broadcaster was earning $7,500 a year, but a malicious busybody informed the immigration authorities that he had overstayed his leave, and Versatile Gough went to Canada. Quebec offered him nothing but the position of dishwasher at the famed Chateau Frontenac. Here a wartime subordinate arriving on the cruiser Australia discovered him, exposed his situation in a letter to the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph. The determined, zestful officer is now forcibly in the limelight, receiving belated offers of worthy employment. Mrs. Gough and two children have lived in Nova Scotia while General Gough tried gallantly to provide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ex-Brigadier | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...numerous fruitless battles with the Soviet forces, between Dec. 18, 1918, and Aug. 19, 1919, the British lost twelve other ships: the light cruiser Cassandra, the mine carriers Victoria, Verulam, Gentian and Myrtle, and seven torpedo cutters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Red Sailors' Prize | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...treaty negotiations, thanks to Secretary Kellogg's inaction, were used as a pretext by the pacifist lobby in Washington, last winter, to prevent action on the Cruiser bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Triumph of Kellogg | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...They are all going to sign. And the same people who are going to sign will attend meetings of cabinets in America, in Great Britain, in France and throughout the world to determine how to spend millions of dollars on the mechanism of slaughter. They are increasing their cruiser strength in America and here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Jul. 9, 1928 | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

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