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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Captain Schultze" also said he was the man who torpedoed the Royal Sceptre on September 7, whose 32 survivors turned up last week in Bahia, Brazil aboard the British freighter Browning (minus their Captain Mestre, who apparently went down with the ship). "Schultze" said that, after sinking the Royal Sceptre...
Reporters at press conference next day found that the President had gone from hot-weather shirt sleeves into a grey suitcoat, seemingly new. Not new, said he: the suit was at least a year old. Whereupon he peeked at a label, amazedly announced that the suit was bought in 1936...
Three quickest ways for a belligerent to get a neutral nation into a general war (as an enemy): bomb the nation's property, sink its ships, kill its people. Person most intimately concerned last week with keeping the U. S. out of the European war was the tall, athletic...
Great Britain, "at two hours after zero," planned to run for cover with its entire domestic radio system, using "wired wireless" over telephone and electric power lines. This system would be proof against any sort of interference except a direct hit on a central transmitter. For that sort of emergency...
First U. S. mariner to see Antarctica was Nathaniel B. Palmer, a sealer out of Stonington, Conn., in 1820. In 1840, Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, U. S. N., sent by Congress, sighted its white peaks, declared it to be a continental land mass. To Palmer Land from the tip of South...