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...Capital ships are absolutely at the mercy of air attack, or any ships that float in the water are for that matter, and the only defense is air power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Mystery | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

...situation, he advocated the scaling down of the high tariffs, increase of taxation and an entente with Germany. It was a restatement of his old policies. The Anglophobe, Germanophile statesman had not budged. He declared that France "must not become a prisoner in the great bastille over which would float the Anglo-Saxon flags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Caillaux Speaks | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

...doubtful if America will float in similar endless flocks to the local production. The gorgeousness of the story has not been sufficiently reduced to a swiftly rising narrative. Through the opening reels, the characters are confused. Too many dukes and knights in armor and around the chess board are inclined to irritate your U. S. gum-chewer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 2, 1925 | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

...first, he had to take advice, but did so with some hesitation. He appointed C. Bascomb Slemp as his Secretary to handle a number of political problems. He leaned on the arms of Secretaries Mellon and Hoover, but, when tax-reduction was proposed, he let Mr. Mellon float it as a trial balloon with tacit consent, before determining how strongly to support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Man and the Mask | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

...cake of ice floated past Newell Boat House yesterday afternoon bearing a long, dark object that looked suspiciously like a body, even to having a ghastly white splotch at one end which closely resembled a human face. Coach Brown, standing on the float with Coach Stevens and a CRIMSON reporter, was the first to see it. "Good God", he cried, "what's that?" Coach Stevens whirled about quickly and glared in the direction Brown was pointing. He took one look, and then shouted to a colored gentleman, who was working over the engine of a motor boat, "Charlie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORPSE ON ICE-CAKE GIVES SCARE TO ROWING COACHES | 2/20/1925 | See Source »

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