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...warship lay anchored in the river. Airplanes streamed about. Soldiers, sailors, marines and police paraded on to the bridge. Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his predecessor, Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York motored to the bridge centre, where they encountered Governor Morgan Foster Larson of New Jersey. Mayor James John Walker of New York City stayed away. He went, instead, to the Colgate-New York University football game...
Poznan, where the statue was erected, is a city that had nothing in particular to do with Thomas Woodrow Wilson, a great deal to do with Ignace Paderewski. It was there that he landed from a British warship in 1919 while Germans still held the town, to become Poland's first Premier. Poznan has always been a Paderewski, anti-Pilsudski bailiwick. The Wilson unveiling resolved itself into a grand Paderewski jamboree. Dictator Pilsudski and Pianist Paderewski (officially tending his sick wife in Switzerland) both considered it wise to absent themselves. So did General Pershing who had been invited...
...Yawuz Sultan Selim slid down the ways of the Hamburg ship- builders Blohm & Voss (builders of the Europa) as the German battle cruiser Goeben. ?Speedy, heavily armored, with innumerable watertight compartments, she was as far ahead of her time as Germany's latest 1931 warship, the pocket battleship Deutschland. At the beginning of the War she slipped through the British and French Mediterranean squadrons to Constantinople, where she was nominally attached to the Turkish Navy as the Sultan Selim...
...likewise eminently successful. Mr. Harris in his pre-view needlessly promised the first-night audience an exercise of its imagination in order to appreciate this scene. (No sooner does the curtain rise upon it than the spectator senses the tensity and thrill of this situation on board a warship speeding through the night to do battle...
...were announced yesterday by the Harvard Dramatic Club. J.S. Jennison '36 will play the Commander, J.C. Neylon '34 Chief Yeoman, and R. L. C. Rein'l '34, Malheim. Technical information about the setting for the second act, which takes place on the bridge of a warship, is being obtained from the author, Commander Stephen King-Hall...