Word: cruisers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kemal after he smashed the Sultanate, perspiring Turks worked furiously to lay a brand new street to the Persian Embassy so that the King of Kings would not be too severely jounced. The last stages of his journey sped him up the Black Sea on a spruce Turkish battle cruiser to Istanbul, then by train to the Turkish capital. Near Easterners quivered with excitement at palavers scheduled for this week, as the two swarthy strong men gripped hands in Ankara, the King of Kings gorgeous in a Persian uniform blazing with jeweled orders. Dictator Kemal sleek-tailed in a Paris...
...Brooklyn Navy Yard finished refurbishing an old 3O-ft. gig, fastened two swivel chairs in its stern cockpit, and installed a water cooler between them. When President Roosevelt boards the Houston at the end of this month the gig will be swinging from the cruiser's davits. ready as a fishing boat whenever the President feels inclined to cast a line overboard on his holiday journey to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Pacific Coast, Hawaii...
With the gay little "Admirals' March" nine Cabinet members one after another were piped over the side of the cruiser Indianapolis docked at a Manhattan pier early one morning last week. Then everybody fidgeted, waiting for President Roosevelt. Finally after 15 minutes he drove up in a touring car whose narrow tonneau he, his full-sized wife and New York's roly-poly mayor LaGuardia more than filled. The ship's band played "The Star Spangled Banner" and the President rode down the Hudson through the narrows and out of New York Harbor for his first review...
...President Roosevelt been two hours late he would not have delayed the ceremonies. Off Staten Island fog closed in. The Indianapolis dropped anchor, whistled for a wind to blow the dank pall away. Ultimately the whistling had its effect. After noon the four-starred cruiser reached the reviewing grounds two mi. south of Ambrose Lightship, followed by the Louis-mile bearing lesser lights of the Government. Out of the distant haze emerged the battleship Pennsylvania, flagship of the Fleet, with the clean, high silhouets of airplane carriers Saratoga and Lexington behind...
...welcome of the German cruiser "Karlsruhe" to Boston Harbor on May 17 promised to be an admirable opportunity for these cozy little factions to display their spiritual vigor. Representatives of all were gathered early near the Navy Yard and a few practice volleys of harmless but obscene insults were exchanged as the agitators limbered...