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...Diaz's latest elevation to the Presidency followed the "Peace Conference" between the revolutionaries of Nicaragua and the former Nicaraguan Dictator General Chamorro, which took place aboard the U. S. cruiser Rochester, anchored in Nicaraguan waters (TIME, Oct. 4). Reputedly during the conference, Rear Admiral Julian L. Latimer- commanding the Rochester took General Chamorro aside and imparted to him some gruff sailorly home truths. Thereafter General Chamorro, having made up his mind that the U. S. would not recognize him as President, resigned that office, which he had held by force, and Señor Diaz was elected. Instant...
...wireless, fumbling about, reach a ship with a doctor. It did, however, make contact with the U. S. S. West Calumb going north from Buenos Aires to Boston. Doctorless too, the West Calumb's captain sent his wireless calls fingering until he made contact with the French cruiser Jeanne d'Arc. Then it became relatively simple for the seamen's symptoms to be relayed by the West Calumb and translated to the French doctors, who relayed back pertinent prescriptions. The sick seamen survived. The story was told when the West Calumb reached Boston last week...
...bare outline is sufficient for Author Bradford's purpose: born in 1809 (the same day as Abraham Lincoln), son of a prosperous doctor, he attended Edinburgh and Cambridge Universities, gave up tentative plans for medicine and the clergy, obtained the post of naturalist on the cruiser Beagle, was gone five years observing and exploring, married his cousin (one of the pottery Wedgwoods) in 1839, conceived the principle of evolution of species through natural selection the same year, fathered ten sons and daughters, spent 20 years amassing proof for his hypothesis, published The Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent...
...hours later the cruiser screen of the Atlantic fleet was sighted, tearing through the spume at 20 knots. As the fleet deployed into line of battle canvas targets were towed into place. Twenty 15-inch guns boomed simultaneously-at a cost for this single broadside of roughly...
...Minister of Marine, speaking before 1,000 notables gathered to watch the launching of the cruiser Kinugasa last week at Kobe, spoke with feeling of great Admiral Togo, now 78, who lay at that moment ill-and perhaps dying- in the modest house which he occupies in a suburb of Tokyo. The fleet has been built up by men like Admiral Togo, samurai ("military nobles") who went to England in their youth, drank at the authentic font of naval lore, and came home to instruct and inspire their countrymen. Japan requires a navy now as never before. The European nations...