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...statement that I was "cashiered" from the Naval Service is unfounded and derogatory to my character and reputation. The term "cashiered" definitely implies that severance from the Service was the result of dishonorable misconduct. I resigned from the U. S. Navy in February in 1929 to enter the employ of Maddux Airlines a Manager of Operations. Attached hereto is a copy of the Secretary of the Navy's letter dated 28 December 1928 accepting my resignation...
...Major result of the uproar caused by Hornsby's ousting last week was an announcement in Chicago by baseball's Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis that he would start an immediate investigation of betting on horse races by baseballers in general. Said Tsar Landis: "I'll have to roll up my sleeves and go to work...
This week Chinese Dictator Chiang at last made his first public statement on the current Sino-Japanese crisis. "Japan will have to decide whether these clashes will result in a major war between Japan and China. If we allow one inch more of our territory to be lost we will be guilty of an unpardonable offense against our race...
...asking the why of things, had his first intimate talk with his handsome, radical-minded son Max, who immediately egged his father on to put the Cabinet ministers in their place. Princess Charlotte, quick-witted and unconventional like her brother, also went to work on King John. As the result of this radical coaching the King soon had his ministers half crazy with alarm. When they tried to maneuver an election to hamstring the power of the church, the King sided with the bishops. He attended a racy play. When he ran out of his own arguments, he borrowed...
...Jack London- a story involving the hazards of convoying merchant ships during the War, with a hero who, through duty and red-hot blood rather than patriotism, faces death as manfully as love. Added to this familiar pattern are modern touches of swearing, sex and disillusionment. As a result Deep Soundings plays hob with the tradition which demands that adventure fiction, no matter how tough its heroes, must preserve a cleanliness seldom found elsewhere in life or literature. As an example of the one serious book which every adventure writer intends to write some day, Deep Soundings is mainly interesting...