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Purpose of Fleet Problem No. 13, which followed the Grand Joint Exercise in Hawaiian waters, was to assay the vulnerability of the Pacific Coast to a mighty naval armament convoying troops, and the possibility of warding off such an attack by a lighter, more mobile defending force. The Blue attackers, under the command of Admiral Richard Henry Leigh, commander of the Battle Forces, consisted of nine battleships, four light cruisers, 23 destroyers, one mine layer, four light mine layers, aircraft carrier Saratoga ("Sister Sara"), 104 planes, 18 auxiliary craft representing 30 troopships. The Black defenders, commanded by Vice Admiral Arthur...
...Thuringian city. Here in 1919 the Constitution of the present German Republic was adopted. And in Weimar 100 years ago last week died Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Not only a poet, this lusty, lyric German philosopher was also a resourceful statesman, ever at the elbow of Weimar's reigning Grand Duke...
Today Thuringia is one of the federated German republics. Nonetheless, Her Royal Highness the widowed Grand Duchess Feodora of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach is still very much alive. Last week the Premier of Thuringia yielded gallantly to the regal Duchess who is 41. She sailed sedately into the Grand Ducal Mausoleum (where Poet Goethe lies buried near her husband) on the arm of no less a personage than the Chancellor of all Germany, pale, ascetic, thin-lipped Dr. Heinrich Bruning, 47. As Democracy thus squired Autocracy to the tomb of Genius, a witness was Comrade Anatoly Lunacharsky representing the Soviet Power...
...rich lawyer and the grandson of a tailor turned innkeeper. Educated in the arts, sciences and law, Goethe's poetical and practical career took imposing form in 1775, when, aged 26, he settled down in Weimar to spend the rest of his life at the court of his friend, Grand Duke Karl August. From then on as poet, statesman and a genius of widest interests 'Goethe permitted his personality to expand majestically. He crowned his career by writing Faust, a poem into which he poured a lifetime of erudition, inspiration and philosophy. If the German people have a "national poem...
Died. Henry Martyn Leland. 89, "Grand Old Man of the automobile industry"; after a month's illness; in Detroit. A tool maker in the U. S. Springfield Arsenal (rifles) during the Civil War, he invented the barber's clippers while later employed by Brown & Sharp, machinery manufacturers. After building naphtha launch engines, Motormaker Leland turned to automobiles, produced the first Cadillac in 1904, later sold out to General Motors Corp. In 1917 he organized Lincoln Motor Co. to produce Liberty Motors for the Federal Government. Converted to automobile production after the War, the Lincoln company failed...