Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discuss the President's legal authority in the Shipping Board struggle (see SHIPPING) with Mr. Coolidge and Admiral Leigh C. Palmer. The President let it be known that he felt that the Shipping Board had disregarded the proprieties in naming Elmer E. Crowley head of the Emergency Fleet Corporation without consulting...
...Government's management of its merchant marine was last week again subordinated to a quarrel among the managers. The Shipping Board mounted its rostrum and announced the removal of Admiral Leigh C. Palmer as Chairman of the Emergency Fleet Corporation and the appointment of Elmer E. Crowley of Massachusetts as his successor. Admiral Palmer was offered a subordinate post and declined it. His exit was followed by the exit of a number of his subordinates, some following him out of loyalty, others ousted by the Board "for the sake of efficiency...
...real issue between the President and the Board is one of authority. Its basis is historical. The Shipping Board was set up as an independent semi-judicial body, to act as a sort of Interstate Commerce Commission of the Seas. The War came. An immense Government merchant fleet was built and operated by the Emergency Fleet Corporation, control of which Congress had vested in the Shipping Board. With the after-War shipping mess, Mr. Coolidge began to look around for a way out of the tangle. He decided that the executive functions of the Board (managing and sale...
From London it was announced that "merely by coincidence" a strong British fleet will soon be maneuvering in Near Eastern waters. L. C. M. S. Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies, who precipitated the break with the Turks at Geneva (TIME, Sept. 28), almost paraphrased Turkish utterances: "I can imagine no action more fatal to the honor of Britain than for us to abandon our rights in Mosul...
...POOR NUT-A college youth who had more brains than social brilliance, but made up for the latter with a fleet pair of legs...