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Deactivation, Mundorff pointed out, means a return to the pre-war naval reserve program for civilians which was first inaugurated at Harvard in 1926. Under it any undergraduate could take courses in naval science, and if he qualified physically and academically, he would receive with his degree, an ensign's commission in the reserve of the U.S. Navy...
...Minister of Veterans Affairs, roared in his broadest Scottish burr: "We in Canada have shared the Union Jack-we will always honor it. . . . But we have nothing peculiarly and indisputably our own ... as the symbol of this great nation of ours." Conservative George R. Pearkes plumped for the Red Ensign.* Conservative Thomas Church cheered for the British Union Jack: "One flag . . . one anthem, one throne, one Empire." So many had ideas that at session's end decision had to be deferred...
They set to stripping her of her movable gear, littering her decks with outmoded radar, communication equipment, boxes of crockery and silverware. A faded jack at her bow, her commission pennant, and her ragged ensign hanging limply aft indicated that she was still a ship of the U.S. Navy, but soon these flags would be hauled down and she would be towed off to the bone yard...
...native of Quincy, Massachusetts, Lt. Comdr. Abele entered the Naval Academy in 1922, graduating in 1926 with the rank of ensign. After serving for 13 years in various Navy capacities, he was assigned to Harvard in 1939 to serve as assistant professor of Naval Science and Tactics, a post which he held through September...
...ENSIGN J. R. HILLERY...