Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much touched with your telegram on account of Captain Roald Amundsen's successful flight. I thank you and likewise congratulate you and the American people on the courageous flight success of Lieutenant Commander Richard Byrd. Without the aid of Lincoln Ellsworth, Captain Amundsen would have been unable to carry through his plan...
...Little Phil" Sheridan was born in Albany, N. Y. He had been graduated from West Point, had served in the Far West, had been a Quartermaster Captain in the Civil War, a Cavalry Colonel, had stormed Missionary Ridge, had fought with Jeb Stuart in the battle in which the latter was killed, had beaten General Early in the Shenandoah Valley, had had his famous 20 miles to Cedar Creek to turn defeat to victory, had been at Appomattox Court House, had commanded in the Southwest after the war, had fought the Indians, had gone to Germany and observed...
...removed from the list of articles permissible for sale in ships' stores. The action was taken on the recommendation of Captain, now Rear Admiral, Wil liam F. Fullam. Mr. Fullam called attention to the fact that men were often penalized for chewing gum in ranks or at quarters. He argued: "If men are encouraged to form this habit on board ship, the Navy deliberately invites them to do something one minute for which they may be punished the next. This is not right...
...Cleveland, Gilbert Frankau explained his propagandist motive. "I love my country deeply," said he. "I would give my all for her. I think I proved that some years ago." (He was a captain of infantry and he still, contrary to British army regulations, uses the title.) Before the National Press Club in Washington, he surveyed his audience after a brief introduction. "I do not want to bore you," he protested, "with any personal history of myself. ... I do not think any person's personality is as interesting as his job.?? ... I will say I came...
Last fortnight Captain Frankau traveled to St. Louis. It seemed a good place to proclaim what sound old Tories were thinking over their port in the London clubs. Incidentally, a convention of U. S. booksellers was in session there, to whom Frankau, who maintains that the national significance** of his novels has impressed "every one who can read in the British Isles," would just say a word...