Word: launching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government to remove the Home Fleet to the extreme southern tip of Wales where Milford Haven affords the refuge of a strongly fortified harbor extending some ten miles inland. Forehanded as usual, the Admiralty announced that it has already bought lands at Milford Haven and is ready to launch a $2,000,000 program for making it a super-safe naval nest equipped with every means of repelling bombers...
...leaky old French steamer Porthos limped into Suez bearing Promoter Rickett. If that Briton had been a crowned head, he could not have been received, according to local newshawks, with greater consideration by Anglo-Egyptian officials. Suez Chief of Police Frank Harvey took the promoter off in a special launch, assigned a squad of detectives to guard him as he hurried from the canal area to Egypt proper. At the barrier an Egyptian officer snapped to salute and Francis M. Rickett drove off escorted by a motorcade of Egyptian troops, with a machine-gun car leading on the three-hour...
...latest issue of the anti-Jewish fortnightly Am Heiligen Quell Deutscher Kraft ("At the Holy Well of German Power"), conducted by General Erich Ludendorff who used to rate as a crackpot. Last week a Ludendorff editorial announced that the Jewish people are secretly supporting the Japanese people to launch a war of Asia against Europe, "so that the nations shall tear each other to pieces for the benefit of the Jews...
...church paper. Viewing the jury's verdict ruinous, Editor Shipler this month splashed an announcement of his predicament on The Churchman's front cover in place of the usual cut or table of contents. Editor & Publisher's Marlen Edwin Pew, good friend of Dr. Shipler, helped launch a money-raising drive. The Christian Century, exclaiming "This Shall Not Happen!'' devoted its lead editorial last week to the matter. And other religious papers fell in line, unanimously convinced that they were facing a new and dangerous crisis in the battle against Hollywood. Excerpts from editorials...
...Having seen Harvard freshmen and the junior varsity-in which Franklin D. Jr. rowed No. 4-beaten by Yale crews, from the referee's launch, the President did not wait to see the Harvard varsity beaten again in a race that was postponed one day because of rough water (see p. 52). Instead he returned to Hyde Park for a secluded weekend, went to Manhattan to have dinner at his house on East 65th Street, continued on to Washington to demand immediate enactment of his tax proposals...