Word: flagship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan. This extensive movement of onetime troops, now heroes, took Manhattan for its chief point of departure. Following a banquet and speeches, the Legion's leaders boarded the S. S. Leviathan, flagship of an armada which sailed with informal peacetime' fanfare...
...Isabel, flagship of Rear Admiral Henry Hughes Hough, churned the waters of the Yangtze River last week. Passing between Nanking and Pukow, the gunboat ran into the Chinese war. Bullets spat from both sides of the river, whistling across the decks, flattening themselves against the armor...
...Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg. He did not do so. Instead, Mr. Herrick made a gesture worthy of France and the U. S. He ordered his bags packed, took the so vital document into his personal care, and embarked on the maiden voyage of the just completed flagship of the French Line, the Ile de France (sixth largest ship-41,000 tons). That Mr. Herrick had previously planned to come home, anyway, did not alter the effectiveness of his beau geste...
...would be play. On the fleet flagship Carinthia members of the International Board planned to "hold several meetings," to clear up odds and ends left dangling after its big meeting, prior to embarkation, in Manhattan. International President Harry* H. Rogers was there, jovial but with his duties well in mind. He would be chief exchanger of greetings and ideas with Rotarians of all nations...
...deck of the flagship Seattle, anchored last week in New York harbor, paced Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet. He paced for 45 minutes, waiting for the Honorable James J. Walker, Mayor of New York, to welcome him to the city. Tardy, debonair, Mr. Walker arrived, pursued by a battery of camera men. Inquired Admiral Hughes: "Does Mayor Walker go anywhere without his photographers ?" Answered Mayor Walker: "Well, the boys want a picture." Then Admiral Hughes asked: "How's the town?" Mayor Walker replied: "All right, now that...