Word: buchananism
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...untidy-looking crate, but she went to her end with a gallantry that insured her fame forever. She was known as "Old Buck" to British tars, officially listed as the H.M.S. Campbeltown. Not long ago, before her transfer to Britain, she had been the 1,090-ton U.S. destroyer Buchanan...
...Small tug or trawler equipped with anti-aircraft guns. †Named after Captain Franklin Buchanan, founder of Annapolis and first U. S. Naval officer of Commodore Perry's expedition to set foot on Japanese soil...
Died. James Buchanan Elmore, 85, "The Bard of Alamo," one of the popular poets of the '90s; on his farm near Alamo, Ind. He enjoyed a latter-day revival when newspaper columnists reprinted him for the sake of such lines as: "He absconded to Cincinnati, and dentistry took, And left a true love he wilfully forsook...
Whether it knows it yet or not, the U.S. is becoming the mightiest naval power in the world. Last week that dawning power was underlined once again: within the span of five days the Navy launched a submarine, three destroyers (Aaron Ward, Buchanan and Fahrenheit) and a battleship. Into the James River at Newport News, Va. smoked the hulk of the 35,000-ton Indiana, six months ahead of schedule...
...JOHN BUCHANAN...