Word: adger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lawyer, was elected National Commander, succeeding Louis Johnson of Clarksburg. W Va. Son of an Irish immigrant Commander Hayes joined the Navy in 1917 as apprentice seaman, was soon commissioned an ensign. He served at Great Lakes Naval Training Station as aide to the late Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett. After the War he resumed his law practice, helped organize the Decatur Legion Post, became Illinois State Commander in 1929. An acknowledged authority on veteran affairs, he was made vice chairman of the Legion's Rehabilitation Committee, had a large hand in drawing up the four-point rehabilitation program...
...last month stole a march and anticipated the honorary degree season by giving an LL. D. to Samuel Seabury, famed inquisitor of Tammany Hall. Last fortnight the College of Charleston (S. C.) held its commencement, announced it had intended giving an LL. D. to the late Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett who went down with the Akron. Last week Amherst College, at a special convocation, gave an LL. D. to Newton D. Baker. Citation: "Scholar in the fields of history and political science, leader in your chosen profession of the law, most beloved and trusted in your city, Cleveland." Said...
...flyer could President Roosevelt last week find on the list of fleet officers from which the Navy's General Board had asked him to choose a successor to the late Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett as Chief of its Bureau of Aeronautics. He delighted Navy airmen by brushing the list aside, naming a man who has more than 400 hours at airplane controls to his credit. Tall, spare, keen-jawed Captain Ernest J. King, 54. father of six daughters and a son, qualified as a Naval Aviator (pilot) in 1927, has since successively commanded the Scouting Fleet...
...Mate Deal detailed what he saw, heard and did from the moment the Akron cast off from Lakehurst at 7:30 p. m. April 3, bound for the New England coast. He related his last conversation with Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, the most distinguished victim of the disaster...
...cruise off the New England coast for calibration of the ship's radio compass; a trifling job compared to the 81-hr. Canal Zone flight from which the Akron had last month returned. Only distinction was the presence aboard of seven guest officers, most notably Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, hard-bitten champion of the Navy lighter-than-air program. He it was who fought and won the airship cause, against a stone wall of official opposition raised by the crash of the Shenandoah in 1925. Other guest officers were Commander Fred...