Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from a two-month trip to the Pacific Coast, emerged from a Cabinet meeting one day last week and, narrowing his sharp old eyes, summoned the Press. The President, said he, was thinking of moving the Battle Force from the Pacific to the Atlantic next year. Why? "Well, the fleet ought to know both oceans and both coasts...
...maneuver. Beginning early next spring the Battle Force, which has been in the Pacific, its normal base, since 1930, and the Scouting Force which went there during the Sino-Japanese crisis, will return to eastern ports until autumn, then go back to the Pacific. Meanwhile only a skeleton fleet of 15 destroyers, four battleships, half a dozen cruisers and submarines will guard the Pacific. The cruise will bring many of the 50,000 enlisted men and 4,500 officers home for the first time in three years, will cost the Navy Department...
...enormous "gifts" for peasant relief out of the wealthy families of Japan, shook probably the biggest philanthropic plum in Japanese history out of the Empire's richest family, the stupendous banking, industrial and trading House of Mitsui which in normal times owns or has under charter a trading fleet as large as the entire mercantile marine of France and has been vastly rich since Poet William Shakespeare's time...
Modern police have outgrown most of Lepine's clever mechanical innovations for the effective maintenance of law and order. His fleet bicycle janissaries have been supplanted by the radio car, and his glittering troopers by the prosaic riot squad and tear gas. His technique of piercing with swords the tires of hit and run drivers is, perhaps, no longer practical. But the admirable adroitness which characterized his administration suaviter in modo and fortiter in re, will never become out of date. It is a virtue which the modern constabulary might cultivate with profit...
...Soviet Union since it was founded. Obviously enjoying himself, War Minister "Klim" arrived with his ferociously bewhiskered colleague in arms, Cavalry General Budenny, and jovial Soviet Education Minister Bubnov. All three big Reds brought their wives. They sailed up the Golden Horn escorted by a squadron of the Red Fleet, disembarked amid thunderous salutes at Istanbul (once Constantinople) and went to sleep in a luxurious Wagon-Lit which carried them 300 mi. up to Ankara (once Angora), the hill-surrounded capital which President Kemal has built at a cost of more than $75,000,000. He never felt safe...