Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scott, fifth daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch. Prince George is not to marry pretty and lively Poppy Baring, daughter of Sir Godfrey and Lady Baring, but is to be sent to join the Fleet in China...
...Boston widower "with eight or ten children," becoming Mother Goose to these and "six or more" children of her own. This ménage readily lent itself to the tale of The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe. Mother Goose's son-in-law, one T. Fleet, a printer, wrote down the songs he heard her sing, and in 1719 published a book from his own press entitled Songs for the Nursery or Mother Goose's Melodies for Children. *Catharine Smiley Cheatham, of Manhattan, is an interpretative singer a Christian Scientist...
Ever since the War, the Govern-ment has been desiring to avoid this loss. But the Government has been prevented from disposing of its fleet to private owners because of its insistence on two things-a good price for its ships (or at least a fair price) and a U. S. merchant service to all the more important parts of the world, a thing which means maintaining a number of unprofitable lines...
...Agencies. In 1916, was created the U. S. Shipping Board, in- tended originally as a semi-judicial and regulative body. When the War came, it was supplemented by the Emergency Fleet Corporation, a Gov-ernment-owned organization, entirely controlled by the Shipping Board, for the purpose of carrying on the business of operating a Government merchant marine. For all intents and purposes, the Emergency Fleet -Cor-poration was the business organization of the Shipping Board. For long the Chairman of the Shipping Board was President of the Corporation. It was not until about a year ago (TIME, Jan. 14) that...
...month ago at the opening of Congress, when he asked for a new law to divorce completely the Board and the Corporation. "Let the Board confine itself to its regulative duties," he said. "Let it lay down general policies, but place the entire business of operating the Government fleet, of carrying out the assigned policy, entirely in the hands of the Corpora-tion." The argument for this arrangement is that the Board is not the kind of organization efficiently to operate a large business. Its seven members are by law chosen geographically to represent all parts of the country. Advocates...