Word: flags
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...memory serves me, Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty (no kin, unfortunately) had as his flagship the Lion and was leading five battle cruisers just before the battle of Jutland, May 1916. At that time the Lion was torpedoed and put out of commission, and Admiral Beatty transferred his flag to another ship...
Night before he spoke his mind, the U. S. Maritime Commission in Washington announced its conditional approval of the transfer of eight ships of the United States Lines to the flag of the Republic of Panama. Banned from belligerent ports, banned from their regular North Atlantic runs because of the combat-areas provision of the Neutrality Act*, these vessels could travel to these ports under the Panama flag, could, moreover, carry arms. And although President Roosevelt announced he was holding up the transfer pending investigation, he expressed his opinion that the transfer did not violate the Neutrality Act because...
...Placing American ships under the flag of Panama is perfectly legal, but immoral, unethical, and unfair. It renders laughable our efforts at neutrality," Payson S. Wild, Jr., associate professor of Government, said yesterday...
...wholesale transfers which began last week are not in accord with the intention of those who wrote and voted for the recent neutrality legislation, Wild believes, since Congress intended that no American ships should carry goods to belligerents, regardless of what flag they were flying...
...order to discuss the European conflict. Towards the second half of the year, uneasy ripples began to disturb the surface calm. The Listerine went down in May. General Wood wanted summer camps for military training. So did President Lowell and General Cole. Ex-President Eliot cried that "our flag should be somewhere in the trenches...