Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flyer could President Roosevelt last week find on the list of fleet officers from which the Navy's General Board had asked him to choose a successor to the late Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett as Chief of its Bureau of Aeronautics. He delighted Navy airmen by brushing the list aside, naming a man who has more than 400 hours at airplane controls to his credit. Tall, spare, keen-jawed Captain Ernest J. King, 54. father of six daughters and a son, qualified as a Naval Aviator (pilot) in 1927, has since successively commanded the Scouting Fleet...
...telegrams the electric power which welded the Roosevelt- Mc-Adoo-Garner deal and put the New Deal in the White House? Controlled inflation, the policy of the hour-whose policy is it, if not his? And looking out upon the Pacific he may sometimes see the smoke of a fleet which he has always urged must be ready to fend off the Yellow Peril...
...Last week Homestake stock passed 200- only stock quoted at that figure on the New York Exchange in more than a year. * His militant peak, however, was when he ordered his London man to sink a steamer in the Suez Canal to keep the Spanish fleet fr.om going after Admiral Dewey at Manila...
...river. The fishermen gave the President a 50-lb. halibut. "Just about enough to feed my family," chuckled Mr. Roosevelt, before cracking the old joke about the young bride who ordered six halibut for dinner. The Wartime Assistant Secretary of the Navy remembered well how one of the fleet's schooners had been sunk by German submarines...
Wardrooms and British service clubs echoed with the news last week that "Ginger" Boyle was going to sea again, and in style. As Commander-in-Chief of the British Home Fleet, he will hold the second highest ranking post afloat in Britain's navy...