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...Although he received a certificate for having completed his Naval R. O. T. C. course, young Roosevelt's prolonged illness rendered him unable to pass the physical examination for the reserve ensign's commission that he normally would have received this week...
...think of nothing more suitable than to marry them off. Flora soon weds a young officer in the Navy. Pam's young man turns out to be a cad; he leaves her on the verge of becoming a husbandless mother. When an accident kills off Flora's ensign, Flora, also pregnant, dies of the shock. Painful but convenient, the circumstances of her death - in Italy where both sisters are holidaying - make things much easier for Pam. She comes back to London with her baby, explains that it is Flora...
...Naval Academy, and with enough social grace to make him acceptable in the best Washington society, "Dodo" picked up small bits of Navy information from Navy wives, pieced them together. Once, feigning drunkenness and pretending that he was a Commander, he boarded a destroyer at Annapolis, tricked an ensign into giving him maneuver data, rushed back to the Japanese Embassy, had them photostated, returned them the next...
...tonnage entered and cleared are, in order, Antwerp, New York, Hamburg, London. A ship's consumption of fuel varies as the cube of the speed it attains. Derricks are named for an Elizabethan hangman named Derrick who was the first to use a single-spar gallows. Oldest ensign in use today is the Turkish, dating from...
...Louisville, Ky., took a re-examination in English, passed, graduated as No. 385½ in his class. Day before graduation, Midshipman Borries stepped before the regiment, received from Rear Admiral David Foote Sellers the Navy Athletic Association's sword as the Academy's outstanding athlete. Following graduation Ensign Borries had his epaulets pinned on, was presented with a big hug & kiss by "Gussie" Mae Hanley of Washington...