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...ironclad Maine (6,682 tons), ugly and awkward but formidably armed for her day (four 10-and six 6-inchers), but no match for the mine that took her in Havana harbor. U.S.S. North Dakota was another step to today, with 20,000-ton displacement, ten 12-inchers, fourteen 5-inchers...
Just where the Fortresses landed in northern Australia was a secret last week. Fourteen of General MacArthur's staff proceeded forthwith to Melbourne, but he stayed behind with his family to rest for a day. The sea and air voyage had worn Mrs. MacArthur...
...Fourteen heavy Japanese bombers in two formations raided Port Darwin, northwest Australia, again Monday and there were increasing indications today that the Nipponese would attempt to occupy the entire Australian sub-continent...
...answer to all those who have wondered just what the driving force of the United Nations is. The book is a statement in something more than platitudes of a faith to fight for. In it Lorwin brings the common doctrine of democracy up to date and lays down a fourteen point program that cuts to the root of the disease that has paralyzed world progress for ten years...
...ever come out with his promised exposure of a plot by Italian Fascists? Never, but he excused himself nobly with the trite phrase that it might "irritate the Italian government." What happened to all the evidence he had on a "huge organization to promote Nazi ideology?" Only fourteen months ago he claimed to have inside dope on Nazi money-raising campaigns in this country and a list of 220,000 names connected with such activities. That was the last anybody heard from Dies on that score. In a radio speech, September 1939, he said he had evidence the Bund...