Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national anthem. Twenty-one times gunners tripped the breech blocks of the 6-pounders. These lonely pomps were a rehearsal for the huge crew of 3,.000. Within a week the same show would be put on, two miles south of Ambrose Lightship, for President Roosevelt, standing on the flag bridge of the cruiser Indianapolis. It would be the first time a President had ever reviewed the Fleet off New York Harbor, the first time the combined Battle and Scouting Forces had been massed in those waters since the Fleet came home in 1918. Hampton Roads is the Navy...
...hands. Not only does the President hold ultimate control of the Navy, but he appoints its entire hierarchy: Secretary and Assistant Secretary, Chief of Naval Operations (No. 1 professional ashore), Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet (No. 1 professional afloat) and all the Commander-in-Chief's subordinate flag officers. Commander-in-Chief, Its political officers can make or break the Navy. Its Chief of Operations, who corresponds to the Army's Chief of Staff, can, if he is capable, key the whole service up to a zestful pitch of efficiency. But it often remains for the Commander...
...designed for the Italian Government. Back home he was assigned to the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington, went to Pensacola to learn flying. As a captain he won his wings at the age of 53. Not long after he was made aircraft commander of the Battle Force, with his flag flying from the Langley. It was during this tour of duty on the West Coast that the effective and unconventional Admiral found himself without a car one Sunday evening when he had a dinner engagement at a fashionable Coronado hotel. He solved this difficulty by driving off in a Navy...
Neither Postal's President Major General George Sabin Gibbs nor I. T. & T.'s Sosthenes Behn was on hand to defend Postal's stand. But Vice President Howard L. Kern, taking a tip from the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, hoisted the red flag of "unfair propaganda." Anyone with half an eye, said he, could see that "the code proposed by NRA was designed to meet the abuses pointed out by Western Union representatives themselves." Though the code would cost Postal $2,767,000 per year in increased wages, the company was willing to subscribe...
...when his thankless, drunken brother-in-law leaves the little family flat for a discreditable marriage. Ten years later Chet and Eve's son, a promising youngster with artistic talent, goes off to his war. Eve is knitting an olive drab sweater behind a window with a service flag when the telegram comes from the War Department. . . . Back under the old pergola from which they started so hopefully 32 years before, childless, grey-haired Eve and Chet still have plans. The house they were going to build will be built for their nephew. They are unaware that the nephew...