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Ready for Politics. In 1926, Lodge married Emily Sears, daughter of a wealthy Beacon Street physician, and settled down to a newspaper apprenticeship. He covered the Coolidge Commission's "restoration of orderly government" in Nicaragua for the New York Herald Tribune, attended the London Naval Conference, and rounded out his experience with a swing around the world "to observe the different methods of government" in colonial areas. Then, at 30, he was ready for politics. In 1932, he ran for the Massachusetts state legislature and won. Four years later after putting through 20 labor bills (mostly on workmen...
...pink-cheeked cadets, aged 9 to 13, of the Royal Marine Volunteer Corps were determined to look their smartest on the march to the Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham, Kent, one evening last week. Proud members of an unofficial outfit sponsored by officers of the Royal Marine Forces, the youngsters were on their way to watch a boxing tournament in the camp of their Royal Navy counterparts. Marching crisply, they swung in a column three abreast along the narrow (27 ft.) tunnel of Dock Road...
Perhaps the most eminent enemy alumnus whose name did not appear in the plaque was Iseruku Yamamoto. A special student at the University in 1919-20, Yamamoto was commander-in-chief of the Japanese navy and was reported killed in naval action in the Pacific during...
This narrative of World War II might well be called "Tales of the North Atlantic." It is unusual among war memoirs in that its author is a bright, youngish (50) rear admiral of naval aviation with no intention of retiring-he currently commands a carrier division in the Atlantic and Mediterranean from the flag bridge of the Coral...
Earlier this fall, the N.R.O.T.C. also suddenly changed the contracts for its students by extending the active hitch from two to three years. Last night, Captain Douglas V. Gladding, professor of Naval Science said, "We have complied with all directives, and, as far as I know, we are in order...