Word: coontz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plowed with small craft filled with eager observers. The headlands were freighted with watching multitudes gathered from miles around. The Victorian Parliament adjourned for three weeks in celebration. In Melbourne, streetcar men postponed a strike until after the fleet's departure. All officials were profuse of words. Said Admiral Coontz...
Parties without end were planned; Governor General Baron Forster announced a ball; others offered luncheons, dinners, dances, picnics, motoring parties, baseball games, fireworks, rifle contests. Admirals Coontz and S. S. Robinson will reciprocate with a reception and dance on the Pennsylvania, luncheons on the Seattle, dinners and dances on the California. The Seattle, flagship of the combined fleet, will also hold a party celebrating its 19th birthday. She is the oldest ship making the cruise...
...fuel, for food. At Pago Pago, the ships will refuel from their own tankers-an operation that, it is hoped, will take no more than twelve hours-and again the fleet will bear away, to the southeast. The cruiser squadron headed by the Seattle with three Admirals aboard- Coontz, Cole and Leigh-will go to Melbourne, Australia. The battle fleet, headed by the California under Admiral S. S. Robison, will go to Sydney, New Zealand. Later, a light cruiser squadron will go on from Melbourne to Hobart, Tasmania...
...Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet, Admiral Samuel Shelburne Robison was advanced. He will succeed Admiral Robert E. Coontz after the return of the fleet from its cruise to Australia. Then Admiral Coontz will have leave of absence, and will be assigned to other duty?probably with the General Board of the Navy. Admiral S. S. Robison (not to be confused with Admiral J. K. Robison?see below) has been Commander of the Battle Fleet. A man of 58, he commanded at one time or another, the Cincinnati, Jupiter, South Carolina. During the War, he commanded the Submarine...
...greater part of the fleet was getting ready to leave Honolulu, last week, for its cruise to Australia, Major General John L. Hines, Chief of Staff of the Army, was back at Washington. He had been in Hawaii acting (with Admiral Coontz) as one of the two chief umpires of the war game in which the fleet attempted to take the Islands from the garrison (TIME...