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...would like to have the Press say what he would like said about himself. Franklin Roosevelt has succeeded better than any President before him in managing the Press. Last week he succeeded even further when he became his own press. Arriving in Jacksonville overnight from Washington he boarded the Farragut, one of the Navy's newest and finest destroyers, which whisked him off at a 35-knot clip to the Bahamas. His secretary, Marvin Mclntyre, his Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins and his bevy of newshawks proceeded on by rail to Miami. For the rest of the week the only...
...Admiral Farragut at Mobile...
...condition the Tribune Tower. The improvement at this stage is complicated and expensive but it will represent a notable contribution to progress. ... In the perpetual experimentation which has marked the evolution of the great Tribune plant [errors, disappointments, expense] have never checked its progress. . . . The motto is Farragut's: 'Full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes.' " One of the torpedoes to be damned by Col. McCormick is an estimated cost which may reach...
Every U. S. schoolboy knows about the fight in Hampton Roads between the Monitor and the Merrimac, and about the naval battle in Mobile Bay, when Farragut said, "Damn the torpedoes! Jouett, full speed! Four bells, Captain Drayton!" But many a schoolboy's parents may have forgotten how one man played a principal role in both duels, was wounded in both. He was Franklin Buchanan, Admiral, Confederate States Navy...
Died. Richard Porter Ashe, 68, lawyer, sportsman, of the family for which Asheville, N. C., was named, nephew of famed Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, first husband of famed Aimee Crocker (now Princess Galitzine), owner of famed Racehorse Geraldine (46 sec. half mile, Chicago, 1891), discoverer of Boxer Jim Corbett, oldtime member of California's Bohemian Club; at San Francisco; of apoplexy...