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...Nearly all prefer to travel in her because, built as a peace ship, she has comfortable quarters in a gondola like the Graf Zeppelin's. Aboard the warlike Akron officers & crew (except the captain) are tucked deep in the ship's bowels. More fundamental is the Navymen's admiration for a ship which was the training school of practically all the lighter-than-air personnel; which flew some 140,000 mi. in 250 flights with never a serious accident;* which submitted stanchly to all manner of experiments; which was the first airship ever to outlive her usefulness...
Tokyo Expects. In Japan it is the Sublime Emperor, 124th descendant of the Sun Goddess, who ratifies treaties. The Japanese Parliament has no say at all. In the face of concentrated, long-standing opposition by Japanese Navymen (TIME, June 2 et seq.), grizzled Prime Minister "Shishi" ("The Lion"; Hamaguchi journeyed last week to the Imperial summer residence at Hayama and, prostrate before the "Son of Heaven," presented Japan...
...Academy received ten of his paintings as the gift of the late George von L. Meyer. With more delicate panels he made gay the steam yacht Noma for Vincent Astor, the schooner yacht Vagrant for Harold S. Vanderbilt, the yacht Viking for George F. Baker Jr. Among yachtsmen and Navymen, wherever he went, he made paintings, made friends...