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...still kept much under Navy's hat. (Says Third Naval District Press Relations Officer Lieut. Commander John T. Tuthill Jr.: "I don't know there is such a school.") Students, about 50 thus far, are Manhattan newsmen who will later receive Naval Reserve commissions ranging from ensign to lieutenant senior grade (pay and allowance: $2,199 to $3,158). Carefully checked by FBI, Navy's censors-to-be study naval regulations, hear lectures by naval intelligence officers, learn to decipher codes. Practice codes are mostly old spy communiques. Example: a harmless-looking news dispatch which dates...
...students have the rank of Ensign or higher and must pass the rigorous physical requirements of the Navy before being admitted to the School, which starts classes on Monday, September...
...bound to be important because of the important forces . . . which are at the disposal of these two major groupings of the human family. . . ." In mid-eloquence he paused to mention "the quiet bay, somewhere in the Atlantic, where misty sunshine plays on great ships which carry the White Ensign or the Stars and Stripes." And he ended with a crowning Homeric touch, describing his return...
Even the newsreels had been taken by British cameramen; the first films to appear were unusually amateurish. The appearance in the news pictures of Ensign Franklin Jr. and Captain Elliott Roosevelt, fully uniformed, wearing the shoulder aiguillettes of Presidential aides, seemed to exasperate many a U.S. citizen who likes everything about the President but his family. When Lord Beaverbrook, British Minister of Supply, turned up suddenly in Washington, all these cumulative exasperations were expressed by a local wit who snarled: "Beaverbrook came over to see if the British had left anything...
...Navy's Air Station at Pensacola, Fla. two white-faced ensigns with new golden wings sparkling on the breasts of their uniforms were tried by court-martial. On a bright March morning Ensign Paul C. Brown, 22, had dived a training plane low over farm workers in a turnip field near Robertsdale, Ala., because it was fun to scare them. Ensign Joseph C. Thompson, 23, riding with him, had done nothing to make him stop. On the dive on the frightened workers, Pilot Brown flew too low, scraped the ground. His wing sliced the head off a woman worker...