Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four years ago wise men searched for a fitting anniversary to be called Navy Day. They thought of that spunky Assistant Secretary of the Navy, that President who sent a proud fleet roaring around the world; so they made his birthday Navy Day. Theodore Roosevelt was born...
...Monitor and Merrimac, of Dewey in Manila Bay. It was President Roosevelt in 1907 when he sent the fleet around the world who first demonstrated that the Navy was a potent organization instead of a few glamorous names, a few precocious children of Fate. The Navy today lacks immortals, but is big with efficiency...
When jingoist Arthur Brisbane was screaming "WAR SURE!" in the biggest type which Mr. Hearst's New York Journal could produce, there was a spunky young Assistant Secretary of the Navy at Washington who demanded that the U. S. fleet put on its fighting clothes. Then the Maine exploded like a bad dream; war came. The fleet was ready for Santiago and Manila; the Assistant Secretary became a Rough Rider. After that he became innumerable things- among them, President...
While the U. S. celebrated Navy Day (see p. 11) and the Japanese Ministry of Marine called for a larger fleet (see p. 18), the Dominion Premiers of the British...
...Portsmouth the visiting premiers and representatives of India were taken aboard H. M. S. Revenge, flagship of the Atlantic fleet, and 'examined with interest her "paravane"* equipment for defense against mines and torpedoes...