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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West Virginia was anchored off Brooklyn Navy Yard, where naval mechanics replaced a 16-inch gun which cracked during maneuvers in the Caribbean last month. Beautifully at rest, the U.S.S. Tennessee rode the Hudson, to be admired by Manhattan gawpers. But it was at Hampton Roads, Va. that the greatest majesty of the Fleet was seen. There battleships, cruisers, destroyers, auxiliaries were harbored in mass while their crews roamed the streets and pubs of Norfolk...
...description of Europe's greatest previous secret policeman-Napoleon's Minister of Police Joseph Fouché-as a "cold, selfish, remorseless fanatic" fits Policeman Himmler too. Of all the Nazi leaders, he is the most uncompromising, the least likely to show mercy or kindness. He is also unique among Nazi big shots in that he literally grew up with the Party, never knew or worked at much of anything else...
Elihu Root, who died in 1937, was one of the greatest of American international lawyers. He was Secretary of State under President Theodore Roosevelt, United States Senator from New York 1909-15, Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague from 1910 until his death, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 1910-25, Nobel Peace Prize Winner in 1912, and diplomatic representative of the United States in many capacities...
Teachers must strengthen "their connection with organized labor as the greatest force opposed . . . to any destruction of that intellectual freedom out of which our educational system has grown," Ernest J. Simmons '25, assistant professor of English, told 400 Massachusetts educators Saturday...
...bright candle lights of success beckoned in the 18th century as strongly as today. Her name was not Lamarr but plan Woffington--just "Peg of Old Drury." Wrapped up in a brand new package of old English drama, Anna Neagle scales the heights of theatrical adoration and wins that greatest prize of all--a corner in the heart of immortal David Garrick. It is the old story of home town girl makes good. But it is fresh and appealing, steeped in the lore of England in the days of Vauxhall and Will's Coffee House. In the hands...