Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recently, the Shipping Board invited bids for the purchase of 200 of its tied-up steel ships for scrapping. While the offer was out, at President Coolidge's urging, the Board agreed that henceforward the disposal of Government ships should be in the hands of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. The reason was that the Corporation, headed by one man (Admiral Leigh C. Palmer), was in a better situation to conduct negotiations decisively and effectively than the Board, with several members. The Board merely reserved the right to pass on the offers for ships which Admiral Palmer recommended for acceptance...
Some observers predicted that this action would result in the President's requesting Congress to dissolve the Shipping Board. For long the Administration has regarded the Board as ineffective, muddling, unbusinesslike, and has wished to transfer control of the Government's fleet to the Emergency Fleet Corporation. The Board has steadily fought to retain its powers, seeking by lip service to the President to convince Congress that there was no need to have it shorn of its powers. Sooner or later, say observers, there will be a showdown...
Cruising, cruising, the U. S. fleet (TIME, July 13) steamed on and came to Pago, Pago,* Samoa. Anchors were tripped. The first lap of the journey to Australia was completed. Refueling was undertaken, and again the fleet took to the high seas. The voyage from Hawaii to Samoa was broken by frequent maneuvers. The only incident of note took place when an officer, Lieutenant Harry J. Noble of the Medical Corps, aboard the destroyer Ludlow became ill. He diagnosed his case as appendicitis. The Ludlow turned on its course and ran back 30 miles to the hospital ship Relief (which...
Admiral of the Fleet Lord Jellicoe of Scapa, until recently Governor General of New Zealand, was created an earl and chose as his second title Viscount Brocas of Southampton. Earl Jellicoe is the last of the supreme War leaders to receive an earldom...
...Wellington, capital of New Zealand, a controversy raged over the fluid content of the welcome to the visiting U. S. fleet. The Drys said it should be dry; the Wets were all for dispensing "the customary hospitality." The vexatious problem was disposed of by leaving it to the decision of the Admiral commanding the fleet...