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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later, in the early hours of the morning, the Majestic steamed down the bay and out to sea with a cargo of celebrities: Vladimir de Pachmann, Russian pianist; Clarence Dillon, who recently paid $146,000,000 for the Dodge Motor Car Co (TIME, Apr. 13); Colonel James A. Logan Jr., who has been unofficial onlooker for the U. S. at nearly every pow-wow of European diplomats for the past few years, and his bride (see MILESTONES) ; Miss Belle Baruch; and the unobtrusive Miss Collins, quietly sleeping in cabin F53-54 with a bunch of white gardenias reposing...
...hovering aloft directing gun fire, spotting mine fields, destroyers spreading smoke screens, submarines diving and popping up from the deep; battle, murder and sudden death-these were the scenes, last week, as two divisions of the U. S. fleet played their war games off Hawaii like a school of sea-lions. In the wake of the fleet, with headquarters on the Islands, were Senators, Congressmen, newspaper correspondents. Much of the games between the Greens and the Whites they could not see. But, on land, they were confronted, not by another "war game"-not by strife but by maneuvers which many...
...proposal, interpolating in the definition of "arms" the words "designed for use in land, sea and aerial warfare," was passed...
...climbed more than 5,000 ft. in ten minutes. Fully loaded, the plane weighs 5,200 lb., and carries a crew of four men. With its inverted engine giving the pilot clear vision ahead; its retractible gear allowing the plane to alight on ship deck, on land, on sea, or to roll up a beach under its own power; with its photographic, wireless and heating arrangements, the Loening is the last word in airplane construction...
...terrific melodrama of history called The Spanish Armada is a play within the play. Captured by the English defenders is a Spanish nobleman. In love with him is the lovely English heroine. The whole thing ends up with a lot of deaths, a fearful sea fight and a pageant for British victory. Through it all, the Critic sits by and thinks everything wonderful...