Word: oaks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next most important claim of last week was that the British Home Fleet was not in Scapa Flow; had not been there, in good probability, since before Royal Oak was sunk by Lieut. Commander Günther Prien's submarine raid. Testator to this probability was First Flying Lieutenant Hermann von Bülow of the German Air Force, who explained in Berlin that the air raid on Scapa Flow, three days after Royal Oak was torpedoed, was a "cleanup job" left to his crowd by the Nazi naval arm. Said...
...testimony (he also said no British warship had, to his knowledge, been sunk by a Nazi bombing plane) was the more impressive when corroborated by no less a warrior than First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. For four weeks an Admiralty commission had chewed its cud over Royal Oak's sinking in Scapa Flow. Last week Churchill stood up, with even more than his usual show of nimble-wittedness, and admitted for himself and the Admiralty that...
...They were being strengthened, but the last "blockship," which was to have been sunk athwart a channel to complete the Flow's blockade, did not arrive until the day after Royal Oak was torpedoed...
...night last week Chicago's elegant Goodman Theatre was packed to its heavy oak doors. What drew this throng was no thunder-rousing maestro or pudding-fed diva, but a pair of pale, genteel young men who plunked softly on 18th-Century-model harpsichords. Before a silver backdrop, gently lit by amber lights, they joined in deft pluck-a-pluck duets by Mozart and Bach. Occasionally they were joined by two lush lady harpsichordists in 18th-Century lace and velveteen. To all this harpsichordery their audience listened reverently, applauded with loud smacks. For they were listening...
Ideological pontiff of the Christian Front, much as he today denies it, is the rabble-rousing baritone of Royal Oak, Mich., Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin. A successful phenomenon of Depression (during which he espoused inflation), a flop in Recovery (in 1936 he backed William Lemke to beat Franklin Roosevelt for President), Radiorator Coughlin began his comeback in Depression II. One Sunday in November last year, he shook his grey-flecked locks and launched into an explanation of why Hitler was renewing his persecutions of the Jews. Naziism, explained Father Coughlin, was a "defense mechanism" against Communism; and Communism was inspired...