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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Board did not regard the airplane as a serious menace to the battleship. Airplane bombs can damage ships in two ways: by direct hits or by bursting in the water alongside. At heights where there is reasonable immunity from anti-aircraft fire, direct hits are hard to obtain; and at lesser heights, bombs are not able to pierce modern deck armor. Explosions alongside are not seriously dangerous to ships with modern con- struction. Accounts of tests and their results were given in detail...
...largest size and two torpedo explosions, also of the largest size, directly against the hull, with no repair of leaks and no pumps going, the Washington remained afloat four days and was finally sunk by 14 hits of 14-inch shell fired at very oblique impacts to obtain data with respect to penetration of armor. The ship sank two and three-quarters hours from the time the guns opened fire...
...Diet elected him Minister President (Premier) by a meagre majority after ex-Minister Braun had declined for a second time to carry on the State's government (TIME, Feb. 2). Etiquette prescribed that Minister Marx should appear before the Diet, announce his Cabinet, obtain a vote of confidence...
Herr Marx had an eye to the future. Thought he: "The Monarchists and the Republicans are evenly divided. In order to obtain some measure of Socialist support, I must have a Socialist colleague." He chose as Minister of the Interior Herr Severing, who has long acted in that capacity under ex-Minister Braun. But the ruse did not work. Last week the Diet refused a vote of confidence by 221 to 219 votes. Minister Marx became ex-Minister Marx. Prussia again lacked a government...
Club members may obtain tickets and invitations by sending the name and address of the lady whom they wish to have invited, and enclosing a check. The charge is $5 per person; $10 per couple. Only Club members will be admitted to the dance...