Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy rear admirals are selected from a list of captains who have distinguished themselves by long and praiseworthy service. One such captain is Capt. Franklin D. Karns, commander of the 32,000-ton U. S. S. Colorado. With 37 years of naval service behind him, Captain Karns might well have been looking forward to early promotion...
Last week a board of inquiry report charged Captain Karns and Lieutenant Commander Dupree J. Friedell with negligence, ordered court-martial proceedings to be immediately instituted against them. Clark Cottrell, Navy Yard pilot, was guiding the Colorado when it grounded, but is a civil employe, not under Navy jurisdiction...
...shining. King George, Queen Mary and Edward of Wales sat in a box. Captain Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his host, Lord Lonsdale, sat in another. A man with a megaphone at a crossroad was announcing the second coming of the Lord and flaying gambling. Approximately every fifth person in Great Britain was gambling. A dentist's assistant in Capetown, South Africa, had a valuable slip of paper in his pocket. Some 300,000 people were watching 23 horses. It was Derby Day at Epsom Downs, where hills scallop the landscape and a dimple among them makes a natural bowl...
Infielders G. E. Donaghy '29, W. W. Lord '28, R. C. Sullivan '29, J. E. Tobin '27, William Ullman '27, and Captain Isadore, Zarakov...
Lectures were given during the year by Dr. H. J. Spinden '06, Colonel LaT. Driggs, General Umberto Nobile, Professor H. E. Barnes, Colonel C. W. Furlong, Dr. W. M. McGovern, J. F. Leys, F. M. Ford, Professor S. K. Hornbeck, Captain R. A. Bartlett, W. H. Hays and F. B. Young...