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...Navy's No. 1 capital ship carrying Admiral Louis McCoy Nulton, commander-in-chief of the Battle Fleet, followed by the West Virginia, Maryland, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico. Next came the cruisers: Detroit, Marblehead, Raleigh, Richmond, the brand new Salt Lake City, many another. Destroyers anchored around Staten Island. Other vessels crowded into Brooklyn Navy Yard. Sailors itched for shore leave. Aboard the flagship Texas was Admiral William Veazie Pratt, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet, who, with other three-starred naval officers, received the formal welcome of city officials. For ten days the fleet would rest...
Funk & Wagnalls also reminded people that the firm was long known as a "Prohibition house," that the late Dr. Isaac Kauffman Funk founded "Prohibition Park" as an amusement centre on Staten Island. His son Wilfred John Funk, now inactive president of the company, is also a personal...
...Karl Koski, 30, Finnish carpenter, with a handkerchief over his bald head, clutching his sweater cuffs to keep his hands warm, passing through a brush fire and a field composed largely of Irishmen and other Finns; a national championship marathon (26 mi., 385 yds.), run around Silver Lake on Staten Island...
Reason for the change: in its new location the Ambrose's 5,000-candlepower light will be a more accurate beacon for ships entering narrow Ambrose Channel from the deep Atlantic 20 miles east of Staten Island...
...sons and daughters of Liechtenstein number only a little over 11,000. Correspondents estimated last week that at least 6,000 turned out to shout "Hail to our new mother!" Peasants had come trudging in to Vaduz from the remotest parts of a country slightly larger than Staten Island. They and the lowlier towns folk evidently thought that free beer and a barbecue at the castle made up for any little irregularities. Besides only sternest aristocrats would deny that in the case of Liechtenstein's ruler and Princess Elsa there are peculiarly extenuating circumstances...