Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next February the U. S. fleet will hold its battle practice in Hawaiian waters. Rear Admirals Yates Stirling Jr., district commandant, and George T. Pettengill, minecraft commander, publicly declared that Honolulu was unsafe for the wives of Naval officers and men and they were not to be brought to the islands for the maneuvers. They could not comment on the hazards for civilians wives, but Admiral Stirling warned: "Honolulu may expect cases of assault upon women unless the better element gets to work to stamp it out." Much to the relief of the city's business and resort leaders...
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...himself to act as orator or poet., As early as 1788 the records tell of "a very respectable audience consisting of his Excellency John Hancock Esq., Governour of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Monsieur Senneville Commander of his Most Christian Majesty's Squadron at Boston and other officers of the fleet." In 1824 the Harvard Chapter was host to Lafayette. The orator of that year, Edward Everett, closed with "an address to La Fayette exceeding anything we have heard, and drew tears from almost every eye"; and to the gracious toast of Judge Story, who presided afterward at the dinner...
...well as in other papers of Boston, Thursday, November 26, that the Chinese students at Harvard were planning to send an armada of 2000 airplanes to blow Tokio off the map, and that I, the undersigned, was the first student to volunteer as pilot of one of the fleet of planes. This report has pushed many questionnaires...
...Constitution and do away with bands and music he suspected as being designed to start a "backfire" against the White House. The idea of closing the yards at Boston and Charleston, while favored by the Navy, brought angry politicians protesting to the President. Decommissioning a large slice of the fleet to save fuel and maintenance costs was another suggestion. The Navy countered with a proposition to rotate vessels at their docks in what it called "reserve commission.'' Last week the President announced...