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...other U. S. territorial waters of first-line fighting craft. The only battleships left on the Atlantic coast were the New Mexico, Idaho and Mississippi and they were at navy yards being modernized. The brand new cruiser Indianapolis was to have joined the fleet in the Pacific after its shakedown run. Last week she was ordered to Philadelphia Navy Yard for repairs when it was found that her 8-in. gun fire had jarred loose some of her plates...
...above Lakehurst one morning last week, U. S. S. Akron left for a long, half-moon swing down through the Deep South and out to join the Fleet in the Pacific. As sound and airworthy as before her mishap last February, the Akron carried 81 persons on her second shakedown cruise, her first continental crossing. Lieut. Commander Rosendahl, covering the trip for the Press, reported the off watches "in their bunks, passing Mother's Day quietly indeed...
...police raid on City Hall opened the final heated week of the Thompson-Cermak campaign. Detectives from the State's Attorney's office seized records of the City Sealer, charged Thompson henchmen with an "organized system of cheating, shortweighing and shakedown" among Chicago fish dealers. Roared the Mayor: "A plot! A plot...
When the editors and publishers of the land hold their annual convention in Manhattan next week, of larger interest than Scripps-Howard's purchase in El Paso will be its last purchase before that. The profession will be asking about, discussing the first "shakedown" figures on the daring purchase of the New York World by the S-H chain's ace, the New York Telegram...
Flying the President's flag (U. S. eagle-&-shield with four white stars on a blue field) from her main truck, the 31,000-ton dreadnaught nosed out into the Atlantic for her first "shakedown" run after two years in drydock being reconditioned. The cocky little destroyer Taylor served as escort. President Hoover had smooth sailing southeastward for four days. He took long naps morning and afternoon, lounged before a wood fire. On deck he played medicine ball, losing one ball overboard. After dinner (for which he dressed) an orchestra played softly, he attended talking cinema shows (Rain or Shine...