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...them to scare Stanley Baldwin, who received disquieting news that in the Mediterranean Fascist Flea Boats were running circles around Britain's most potent dreadnoughts, obviously able to dash in for quick, close, suicidal work with torpedoes had Il Duce so ordered. Last week His Majesty, arriving at Portsmouth Naval Base in the gorgeous uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, was mobbed by sailors' girls who broke through police lines and jumped on the running boards of his car cheering in the rain. Putting on an oilskin over his uniform and tossing the white-feathered cocked...
...Paul FitzSimons, Republican National Committeewoman from Rhode Island, in a letter to the New York Herald Tribune told how she and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, speaking from Portsmouth, N. H. last September, had their broadcast spoiled by interference from a brass band whenever they attacked the New Deal. She also told of listening to the Republican broadcast last week over WGN: Reception of WGN in Rhode Island was perfect until five minutes before the political broadcast began. "At that time roars and crashes began which continued incessantly until five minutes after the . . . program ended...
Last July the British cruiser Suffolk was warped to a berth in Portsmouth harbor. While nervous Chinese gentlemen hovered anxiously around, a gang of Royal Marines slowly carried ashore 93 brass-trimmed steel trunks. In those trunks were 21,000 separate pieces of imperial Manchu treasure which, lent by the Nanking Government, were leaving China for the first time in history. To help assemble them, the great Orientalist and retired importer George Eumorfopoulos sold his own collection and hurried to the East (TIME, Jan. 28). All 21.000 were unpacked and spread out last week in the Royal Academy...
Clipston S. Harding, of Portsmouth, N. H.; Alan S. Harrington, of Hingham, Mass.; Joseph S. Harvin, of Fort Worth, Texas; Richard W. Heurtley, of Darien, Conn.; Henry F. Howes, of New York, N. Y.; Winthrop S. Jameson, Jr., of Belmont, Mass.; Lawrence M. Levinson, of Chattanooga, Tenn.; Richard W. B. Lewis, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Irving M. London, of Malden, Mass.; John F. McCluro, of Harrisburg, Pa.; William B. Miller, of Concord, Mass.; Sumner A. Pendleton, of Somerville, Mass.; Sheldon P. Peterfreund, of Glen Lyon, Pa.; Charlton D. Pierce, of Tilton, N. H.; Fred Rogosin, of Dorchester, Mass.; Sidney Sulkin...
...University Faculty of Medicine, Kingston. After due orthodox experiments on cancerous mice, young Dr. Connell began to inject the sterile nitrate of such dissolved cancers into the muscles and veins of dying Kingston cancer victims. One of the first was a prisoner of Ontario's dreadful Portsmouth Penitentiary, close to which the Drs. Connell have their homes...