Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From South Africa to Fleet Street the Empire was piquantly all of a twitter, last week, over Dawn, the furiously contested cinemastory of the life & execution of Edith Cavell (TIME, Feb. 20). At the nub of controversy jutted the fact that Great Britain has been "muddling through" without a legal system of film censorship. Therefore, last week, the interplay of moral suasion was untrammeled and magnificently British. Some felt, and some did not, that to project the story of Nurse Cavell once more upon the world would be to revive War mentality at its worst and embitter Anglo-German relations...
...with speed and accuracy of judgment, and, as might be expected, the latest contribution to both these qualities comes from a foreign country, in this case Hungary, which has just acquired what is probably the most advanced method of securing prima facie evidence. For the Hungarians now use a fleet of automobiles especially equipped with every useful kind of apparatus for the discovery and apprehension of malefactors. From moving picture cameras to portable laboratories, the cars are complete, a decided contrast to the traditional derby and cigar equipment in vogue in America...
...debate was followed by a short address by Commander R. C. Grady, head of the Naval Science Department and an active member of the United States Navy, who led a fleet of submarines in the World War. He spoke on "Increased Naval Expenditures," bringing out first the point of national policy. People look with apprehension at the bill now before Congress for an enormous naval appropriation. It is true that both up-keep and original cost would involve a total of nearly a billion dollars. But such an expenditure would be not only desirable but indispensable. The United States...
...limitation, the U. S. had fallen far short of the parity agreed to with Britain at Washington in 1922, and would fall farther short if replacements were not soon authorized. He showed how auxiliaries, which are all that the new program called for, are the "eyes" of the Battle Fleet, whose size is fixed. He tried to tell the country that it spends as much on candy in one year as the Navy wants to spend in nine years to make the world safe for candy-eaters. He pointed at the billions spent in U. S. beauty parlors. He invoked...
Humble fishing smacks and rusty tramp steamers last week sailed with the Royal blessing. Centuries of service rendered the Nation in war and peace by commercial ships and fishing fleets were signalized by bringing these vast and wandering squadrons, like other able Empire services, under the honorary wing of the Royal family. The title of Master of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleet was presented to the Prince of Wales...