Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great nautical pother has been stirred in the Press because Old Ironsides was not sailed. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke made trouble for himself by publicly doubting whether the present-day Navy could muster a crew capable of handling a square-rigger. Old sailors' homes fairly thundered with indignant denials. Mr. Jahncke later explained that the Constitution had an exhibition schedule to keep, could not risk delays under canvas. He proposed that she be turned over later to Annapolis midship men for training purposes...
Married. Sarah Stires Wood, daughter of President Robert Elkington Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; and James Roland Addington, Chicago socialite; in Highland Park, Ill., by the Rev. Ernest M. Stires. Bishop of Long Island, uncle of the bride...
Appointed. Capt. Ernest Granville Diggle of 5.5. Aquitania, onetime com mander of the Mauretania and Berengaria: to be commodore of the Cunard Line fleet; succeeding Capt. Sir Arthur Henry Rostron who retired last month...
...Memphis, Dr. Ernest Cleaves, blind osteopath, won a divorce from his blind wife on charges of misconduct with a former sweetheart, also blind. Two blind witnesses testified for Dr. Cleaves...
...Ernest Carroll Moore, director, Southern Branch of the University of California, Los Angeles LL.D...