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Some twelve years ago in a Nicaraguan crisis a small British warship was sent to the scene. It was withdrawn, however, upon the arrival of United States marines. But if our government is going to remain aloof from now on when our southern neighbors elect suddenly and with force to change their government will we still be able to object to European intervention...
...cameraman, to Japan. Farkas made a close study of aristocratic Japanese interiors, got shots of harbors cluttered with boats, of Japanese street crowds. He claimed that he made films of naval maneuvers which were confiscated by the Japanese authorities. Upon Farkas' return to Paris, Garganoff borrowed a French warship, made action sequences in her gun turrets, on her decks, on her bridge, with Japanese actors impersonating Japanese sailors. To piece out the action U. S. newsreel shots of battle maneuvers, gunfire and torpedo practice were purchased from...
...Marshal: Warship or no warship, I've got this writ and by golly I'm going to serve...
...tons. With enormous difficulty it was hoisted to a dray and hauled by swaying spans of oxen all the way to Leghorn. For enlarging his studio, hiring servants and replanting trees from Florence to Leghorn, Sculptor Greenough sent Congress a bill for $8,311.90. As no U. S. warship big enough to carry the work of art to the U. S. was handy, the Government chartered the merchantman Sea for $6,300. It took two weeks of fussing to load the huge statue on the Sea. The ship's captain charged the Government $100 a day for demurrage...
...where the harbor water lay flat and blue. The thing he liked most in Charleston was the German cruiser Emden which one day steamed into port, made fast to a wharf. Mornings he watched brisk German sailors in white gymnasium suits doing setting-up exercises on the warship's decks. Finally after a good long look, he started North toward Manhattan and his Connecticut home...