Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dusk his train sped north and east to Manhattan where he arrived after midnight. A few hours' sleep in his East 65th Street home and he was up & away to review the U. S. Fleet aboard the cruiser Indianapolis...
...they want consideration from the U. S. The President drafted his message before he left Washington, turned it over to the State Department for expert combing. It was forwarded to him at his Manhattan home where he signed it immediately after his return from reviewing a U. S. fleet on which he is spending more money than any other U. S. President in peacetime...
...full-sized wife and New York's roly-poly mayor LaGuardia more than filled. The ship's band played "The Star Spangled Banner" and the President rode down the Hudson through the narrows and out of New York Harbor for his first review of the U. S. Fleet...
...Last autumn the Japanese grand fleet maneuvered in the Caroline and Marshall Islands, between Guam and the Philippines. The U. S. Navy ruefully admits it has "never had the nerve" to exercise in Far Eastern waters...
...admiral's life at sea is not a gregarious one, lacking the close fellowship of the ward room of his younger days. As he steamed north last week to salute his President and take command of the fleet, Admiral Reeves had plenty of time for reflection. In his mind's eye, already he could see his red Battle 'Force flag changed for the blue four-starred ensign of the Commander-in-Chief. Already he could anticipate the ceaseless naval communications on onion skin paper addressed not to COMBATFOR. his old title, but to CINCUS...