Word: cruisers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...band played the "Star Spangled Banner," a few strains from "Aloha Oe," some of "Auld Lang Syne." Franklin Roosevelt took off his Panama to the officers and men of the U. S. S. Houston as he left the cruiser that had been his home for 33 days, 12,000 miles. On the Portland dock welcoming crowds saw him give a confident toss of the head, watched his well-tanned face glow with self-assured smiles. A few drops of rain fell from a threatening sky upon him in his open...
Next morning the cruiser, with the New Orleans tagging dutifully along, appeared at Hilo on the opposite side of the island for the ceremony of setting the first presidential foot on Hawaiian soil. Under leis the smiling President debarked, was met by a great brown & yellow crowd which knew little of the U. S. custom of cheering a great man. A drive through Hawaii National Park brought Visitor Roosevelt to the crater of Kilauea. There he tossed in a bunch of ohelo berries to appease Pele, goddess of volcanoes...
...Looking all week at an empty sea, with not another ship upon it except the convoying cruiser New Orleans from which three newshawks vainly wigwagged for news...
...front cover) President Roosevelt was last week out on the blue Pacific aboard the cruiser Houston. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau was on a ranch in Montana. Secretary of Commerce Roper was touring the Pribilof Islands. Secretary of War Dern was at the Panama Canal. Secretary of the Interior Ickes left for parts unknown. Attorney General Cummings started across the continent for Hawaii. In short, most of the New Deal was on vacation...
...fortifying the Dardanelles and certain strategic points on the Turkish coast from which all visitors are barred. Of late several ships of the Royal Navy have been lazing near Samos, a Greek island two miles off Turkey. One boiling hot afternoon last week three British officers from the big cruiser H. M. S. Devonshire shoved off in a ship's boat for what Britons afterwards called "a sail and a swim." Their pleasure took them within wading distance of Turkey's forbidden shore. Suddenly, out of the underbrush raced ten Turkish coast guards brandishing rifles and shaking their...