Word: farragut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charleston last week the President was piped over the side, of the Navy's sleek, light cruiser Philadelphia, about to put out on a six-day "shakedown cruise." Across the dock from the Philadelphia lay the ancient battle sloop. Hartford, which Rear Admiral Farragut comm.anded in the Civil War battle of Mobile Bay and the capture of New Orleans. Cried the President to Rear Admiral William Henry Allen, standing with his staff on the pier...
...entire editorial space to business news. The Times' financial editor is Alexander Dana Noyes. His job, however, does not give him his unchallenged position as dean of financial writers. In years, as in wisdom, he stands apart from and above his colleagues. Born the year that Farragut took New Orleans, he learned about the Panic of 1873 first-hand from his merchant father. He was only a year out of Amherst and just breaking in as a Wall Street cub when the Panic of 1884 struck. By the Panic of 1893 he had been financial editor...
Indoor baseball, according to legend, was invented by George Hancock who, one rainy afternoon at the old Farragut Boat Club in Chicago, started a game, using a broomstick for a bat, a boxing glove for a ball. That was in 1888. In the next 40 years, the game crept tentatively out of doors, developed a loose set of rules and modestly acquired a new name: "softball." Suddenly, in 1930, it became a U. S. mania...
...Rhinelander Robert, who in turn interested an oldtime U. S.' missionary in Turkey named Cyrus Hamlin. Merchant & missionary failed, however, to interest His Imperial Majesty Sultan Abdul Aziz of Turkey. Then one fine day an imposing U. S. man-of-war steamed up the Bosporus with Admiral David Farragut aboard, for a courtesy call on the Sultan. His Imperial Majesty hastily reversed himself, handed the U. S. Legation a gracious iradé (permit) to build. Hence it happened that in 1869 there began to rise on the Bosporus bluffs five miles from Istanbul and 5,000 miles from Boston...
...thousand men would take part on 160 vessels, in 450 planes. Potent newcomers to the Fleet would be the battleship Idaho, just modernized for $14,000,000; the Ranger, first U. S. aircraft carrier built as such from the keel up; five more heavy "treaty" cruisers; destroyers Dewey and Farragut, swiftest blue-water craft ever to join the Navy and first of a long line to replace the obsolescent Wartime destroyers. It was a Fleet, the Navy could not refrain from boasting, which was not only the most powerful ever to fly the Stars-&-Stripes, but in fighting strength second...