Word: flagships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...widow died. Last week old friends went to see the residue of the Dewey glory sold. Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean, who was swindled out of $106,000 in an effort to find the Lindbergh baby, bought the walnut armchair that was the hero's deck chair on his flagship the Olympia for $11. A moosehorn liquor set that her estranged husband had given the admiral she got for $30. The four red lacquer tea tables, gift of the Emperor of Japan, went to Abraham Lincoln's granddaughter for $16. Speaker Champ Clark's daughter...
...Dream a Japanese destroyer is anchored at Shanghai near the flagship of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet, the cruiser Houston. Acting on his own responsibility, with no orders from his Japanese superiors, obscure "Lieut. Maki" abruptly fires a torpedo into the Houston, which sinks. Though a Japanese court martial sentences Lieut. Maki to be shot, war has meanwhile been declared. After a terrific air and naval battle most of the U. S. fleet is sunk and Japan as a starter seizes the Hawaiian Islands. The Dream ends as a monument to Lieut. Maki is unveiled in conquered Honolulu...
Died. Rear Admiral Ridley McLean, 61, commander of Battleship Division 3, author of The Bluejacket's Manual; suddenly, on board his temporary flagship Nevada; in San Francisco...
...square-jawed rear Admiral Charles S. Freeman, commander of the Special Service Squadron. Admiral Freeman, a quiet, cool-headed Pennsylvanian of 55, was put in charge of all naval vessels in Cuban waters. He went ashore at Havana, had his picture taken with Ambassador Welles, returned to his flagship and, while his sailors lusted for action, sat by awaiting orders to let the iron fist fly or pocket it. Within three days a dozen destroyers encircled Cuba, with another dozen awaiting steaming orders. The Mississippi hovered off Morro Castle. All available ships on the Atlantic Coast were on the move...
...Minister, withered Viscount Korekiyo Takahashi, protested that "any boycott is to be deprecated." He was called "weak" by an irate Tokyo press. In their bitter reaction against Britain, Japanese last week exuberantly acclaimed and feted the U. S. cruiser Houston, first courtesy call paid by the U. S. Asiatic flagship in Japanese waters in five years...