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> But the main lesson was the need for coordination of all the weapons of sea warfare. Near Crete neither side was properly coordinated: Britain, lacking aircraft, lost ships, and Germany, lacking ships, lost men. But in holing the Bismarck the British used almost uncanny coordination. And the Bismarck, without planes...
WASHINGTON - President Roosevelt tonight placed the support of his administration behind the House drive to revive the Batch "Clean Politics" bill. Indirectly rebuking the House Judiciary Committee for pigeon-holing the measure. Mr. Roosevelt said he hopes that the bill will be brought to the floor of the House, acted...
While the cruisers Exeter, Ajax and Achilles were holing up the Graf Spee in the South Atlantic; while the R. A. F. harried Helgoland and two British submarines smacked the Nazi Navy in its own waters (TIME, Dec. 25)-across the North Atlantic, obscured by these events, and by winter...
But it would be naive to imagine that Mr. Siepmann's visit is purely academic. Obviously, he will travel about the country, but ton-holing the leading radio executives, dining and wining them, discussing -- in an off-hand manner, of course -- the unfortunate war into which Britain has been dragged...
Star performers for the U. S. did not include Patty Berg but two old standbys, Glenna Collett Vare, six-time U. S. national champion, and Maureen Orcutt Crews, winner of practically every important U. S. tournament but the national. Playing in a Scotch foursome with Patty (i.e., hitting alternate shots...