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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land-grabbing war with Mexico. Feeling its imperial oats, the young nation decided to build a magnificent fortress, a Gibraltar of America. Chosen as a good site was a desolate coral reef 65 mi. off Key West in the Gulf of Mexico. The reef, named Dry Tortugas by Ponce de Leon because it swarmed with turtles, consisted of ten keys-strung ten miles east & west. With tremendous enthusiasm and at tremendous cost the Government began to transport plaster, mortar, bricks from the North. Slowly on 25-acre Garden Key rose Fort Jefferson-barracks for six companies, 18 sets of officers...
...Germany will re-arm herself as much and as quickly as she can," sail Jules Blache, Exchange Professor from France, maitre de conferences a la Faculte des Letires, shortly after his arrival in Cambridge yesterday. "It is not a question of France's giving her consent or withholding it; the Germans, as soon as they have the money and the materials, will start to build up their armaments...
...general run of students to understand the technical French required for lectures on geography. His public afternoon lectures, which will be given weekly in the institute of Geographical Research, will, however, be given in French. His first lecture will be at 4.30, February 11 on "Les Origines de L'Agriculture Francaise...
...Bridge admitted on the stand last week that he had received since that time more than $50,000 from Miss Frick, but maintained that this money was due him for a block of Cerro de Pasco copper stock held in his name by the elder Frick. Never once did Defendant Frick appear in court. Newshawks were not surprised, for no rich woman has ever fought publicity so long or so successfully. Blonde, thin, freckled and 44, Helen Clay Frick inherited her father's executive ability...
...Last month, he, too, reached the age of retirement, and Cunard White Star officials looked around for a successor. Last week few seafarers were surprised when they chose for the job of commodore that salty old mariner Sir Edgar Theophilus Britten, longtime skipper of the Berengaria. Aide-de-camp to George V, who knighted him at a special investiture last year. Sir Edgar was particularly proud last week because as Britain's No. 1 sailor he is now certain to command her No. 1 ship, Queen Mary, when that 73,000-ton monster goes in service next year...