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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This magazine-review column is a regular weekly feature of the Crimson...
...Hopkins and Private Secretary Marguerite Lehand, arrived at Quantico to board the U. S. S. Sequoia for a week-end of fishing down the Potomac. The President wanted no military display of the fighting force he had mobilized for possible service in revolutionary Cuba, no semblance of a presidential review which might be misinterpreted in Latin America. Aboard the Sequoia he had to wait a half-hour for his son James to arrive by army plane from Boston and join his party. To kill time he summoned Col. Richard P. ("Terrible Terry") Williams, commander of the 7th Regiment...
...time since 1918, and preparing to do something about it. It was time for Hitlerism to pull its horns in once more, and that Hand- some Adolf proceeded to do with superlative skill. In medieval Nuremberg, home of Die Meistersinger and Albrecht Durer, scene of the first public Nazi review, yet another huge Nazi fiesta was under way. Bands blew their lungs out, flags fluttered from every housefront, tens of thousands of Nazis tramped their feet sore. Innsbruck's Franz Hofer was carried to the reviewing stand on a stretcher and fireworks were set off with such complete disregard...
Thus ended Japan's first massed naval maneuvers in three years. The Emperors of Japan have reviewed their navies only 16 times. In 1890, first review to attract Western attention, the Emperor of Japan had 32,328 tons of warships, all built abroad. Last week the Emperor's fleet was 26 times as great, and nearly every ton of it built in Japanese yards. Since the last maneuvers three years ago, the sea fleet has increased 20%, naval aircraft...
...manned, the temper of the miners was still dangerously explosive. If the final coal code should go against union labor, an outbreak of such bloody violence was feared that nothing short of Federal troops could restore order. ¶ President Roosevelt began to appoint special boards around the country to review veterans' cases of presumptive military disability, trim bogus claims off the pension rolls. The American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars were liberally represented on most boards. ¶ Cuba last week occupied a large part of the President's attention (see p. 15). After the coup...