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...chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, thought he smelled a rat. In a letter to President Roosevelt recommending rejection of all cruiser bids, he charged the shipbuilders with collusion, accused them of protecting one another so that each would certainly be low bidder on at least one type of vessel. The Navy investigated, could find no substantiation of Mr. Trammell's charges. But to play safe three ranking admirals flew to Hyde Park, laid all the bids before President Roosevelt, got that onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy's approval for each & every contract. Also announced last week...
...whence he directed Zeppelin raids on London, submarine attacks on Dover; in Berlin. He was one of twelve German admirals whose extradition was sought by the Allied Powers for the much publicized "judicial murder" of Captain Charles Fryatt, executed for trying to ram a U-boat with his noncombatant vessel...
...votes" at forthcoming Repeal elections. They heard Pastor Norman Vincent Peale of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church deplore the fact that "a very high public official, who should represent in his personal attitude the sacred ideals of the people, begins his summer vacation in a sailing vessel on Sunday."* They learned from Mrs. Dora B. Whitney of Michigan that recitations of "The Face On The Barroom Floor'' effectively aided a Dry campaign. They passed a resolution asking "fairminded men and women" to renounce the dripping major political parties, form a Dry third. And after eight years Brooklyn...
Recently three Japanese crabbers, from the fishing vessel Fumi Maru, were said to have attempted to land at Cape Kronotsky, Kamchatka, in a small boat in search for water. Spy scares are thicker than crabs on the cape. A Soviet patrol was reported to have surprised them, shot them down. In Moscow Japanese Ambassador Tamekichi Ota instantly demanded permission for the Japanese Consul at Petropavlovsk to board the Japanese destroyer Tachikaze, visit the scene of the affair and make a report. It was refused on the grounds that the Tachikaze was a warship, but the Consul was given permission...
...fish (TIME, May I). The President was given an oil painting of the Thebaud which moved him to exclaim: "I think the painting is particularly lovely and I'll hang it in my study in the White House. (Gesturing toward the Thebaud) Isn't she a grand vessel! Look at her lines. Cap'n Pine, you should be proud to own her." But when a few minutes later he was made an honorary member of the Gloucester Master Mariners Association, Master Mariner Roosevelt mused aloud: "I don't think I could take the Thebaud...