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...tricolor that had flown over German Mainz for nearly twelve years slipped slowly down the flagstaff. With as little commotion as possible the 8th Infantry scurried clanking through the streets, quickly entrained for Cherbourg. At the station a sudden irrepressible storm of boos and catcalls from the German populace sped them on their...
Next morning President-elect Prestes and party sped from Washington back to Manhattan, cruised up to West Point in the Jamaroy (yacht of Scripps-Howard Chairman Roy W. Howard) escorted by the U. S. destroyer King, then returned by motor to Manhattan for "several days of rest" before they sailed on the Olympic for Europe...
Stolen Show. The cruisers, destroyers and big submarines V-1 and V-2 (which had saluted by diving when abreast of the reviewing ship) all sped to the southeastern horizon, the dreadnaughts turning eastward into battle line, to prepare for a mock engagement between the Fleet's light forces and its "backbone." Meantime, having sounded their little salute guns, the Saratoga and Lexington turned westward, into the wind. The Salt Lake City turned with them so that she ran between. On the 2½-acre plateau decks of the two huge mother ships waited 150 airplanes, with all motors...
After the air fleet sped away south to its distant base ships, the metropolitan press poured out stories of how the attack, if real, would have devastated New York, wiped out the Wall Street area, left thousands dead and dying. High naval officials, however, discounted such results from such an air raid. In a real attack upon New York, they said, the enemy would not seek to take life primarily but would concentrate its bombs upon the power houses and gas tanks that line the city's shores, upon the railroad bridges, tunnel heads, radio stations. The greatest effect...
...this town the train halted and the prisoner was ushered into a handsome limousine with rich, closely drawn curtains, the type of car in which the wife of an Indian Maharajah is taken for a ride. With an Englishman disguised as an Indian chauffeur at the wheel, the car sped to Yeroda jail in Poona. There officials did all in their power to make St. Gandhi comfortable, showed reporters a dozen woolly animals of purest strain, purchased by His Majesty's Government to supply the prisoner with his favorite beverage: goat's milk...