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Visible Empire. The seeds of empire, sown the last decade of the last century, first sprouted in 1893 when 160 U. S. Marines were landed for a Hawaiian "revolution." Later the islands were annexed to put their sugar production inside the U. S. tariff wall. The Spanish War added Porto Rico, the Philippines and Guam as imperial outposts, gave the U. S. a protectorate over Cuba. From the 1902 revolution in Panama the U. S. got land for the canal, laid the foundation for U. S. dominion over the Caribbean. Theodore Roosevelt, if not an imperialist, was a master empire...
...first time in British railway history a royal train, carrying King George & Queen Mary and King Christian & Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, reached London behind schedule, stalled 18 minutes by the force of the storm. On his arrival in Britain last fortnight, long King Christian, whose life is a succession of minor mishaps (TIME, March 18, 1928), was stranded for hours on a mudbank. Last week, like Ajax defying the lightning, he re-embarked for home in the height of the hurricane...
Holland. Dykes, windmills were smashed, thousands of acres flooded. Into The Hague limped the tug White Sea, Captain Verscheor, master, famed tugster who pulled the 50,000-ton world's largest floating drydock from Britain to Singapore, early this year, having lost his haul for the first time in, his career. Off Borkum Reef, the 200-foot drydock that he was towing last week reared high on two gigantic waves, broke in two, sank. Brave Captain Verscheor, bruised and bleeding from being smashed against the rails of his bridge, stood by to rescue all nine of the foundered drydock...
Last week the first and only President of the Greek Republic attracted a certain amount of attention to himself by resigning...
...periods, eleven Carnegie Technicians played as though every one of them rated the All American. They scored 13 first downs and 13 points. The Trojans, fidgeting in the line and scrambling over each other after the ball was snapped, were lucky to get two passes over to tie the score at the end of the half. In the third quarter Carnegie Tech started again but Eyth fumbled and Trojan Tappaan recovered...