Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First to God and then to the President a 12-year-old St. Paul, Minn., boy appealed to grant his three-fold wish: to see the U. S. fleet, to inspect some Army airplanes to own a bicycle. The President was away but Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus Swanson offered to grant the first two requests, advised continued prayer for the bicycle...
Rheumy-eyed Prince Saionji, the tottering Last of the Genro (Elder Statesmen) again had to rack his withered old brains last week. He and the Sublime Emperor faced another assault by Japan's big navy jingoes. Some 60 officers of the Imperial fleet, all potent sea dogs with the rank of captain or higher, had just laid reverently but firmly before the Throne a petition dangerous as dynamite. They asked the Son of Heaven to tear up in his infinite wisdom the chief naval treaties to which Japan is a party and to demand naval equality for her with...
...first squadron of the Italian Battle Fleet was lying quietly at anchor with no immediate plans when an excited radio operator rushed into the presence of Admiral Cantu and three Rear Admirals who were swapping yarns aboard his flagship. Instantly Admiral Cantu began to splutter orders. The Rear Admirals were piped off to their ships, engine room lights winked full speed ahead and Italy's first squadron tore for the mountain-jabbed coast of King Zog's Albania...
This assurance was repeated by Italy's Minister to King Zog but Albanian Foreign Minister Jafer Gila, hopping mad, protested: "Only the immediate departure of the Italian fleet can remove the bad impression caused by so many warships...
Last week's fleet in their blue water race failed to encounter a mysterious school of whales reported by a fishing captain off the New Jersey coast, reported no fatalities. Most serious accident was one which befell Mason B. Rumney on the Baccarat. When a large wave hit the rudder, he was tossed into the cockpit by the tiller, broke two ribs. The Vamarie arrived with her radio set out of order, her navigating instruments broken by high seas. Slowest boats in last week's race were Robert P. Baruch's Zingara and Dainty, owned...