Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Watchdog. William Howard ("Admiral") Gardiner, president of the Navy League of America and volunteer watchdog of the U. S. fleet (TIME, May 12), took to the air with a radio appeal for the postponement until December. He spoke of "rising tides of doubt," insisted the country should have more time in which to digest the pact. Though he professed to be neutral on the treaty itself, Mr. Gardiner's position squared exactly with that of Senator Johnson. There was little doubt that at heart the Navy League would be pleased to see the whole London agreement go by the board...
...Naval Science Cruise this year will be taken on the battleship "Wyoming", the flagship of the United States scouting fleet stationed in the Atlantic. This ship will carry members of the Harvard and Northwestern Naval Science units. The cruise leaves Boston on Saturday, June 21, and will take three weeks, returning about July 10. The ship will stop for three days at Fayal, in the island of Horta, in the Azores...
Applause. As the Salt Lake City headed in for Old Point Comfort, her wireless crackled out: "The President wishes to congratulate the Commander-in-Chief, the officers and men of the Fleet on the smart and efficient manner in which the individual units performed their tasks...
Referring to the French he observed, "never was a clearer spectacle of human hypocrisy seen. It would appear that only in Italy are there airplanes, because elsewhere quite obviously there are only innocent tissue paper kites. Only Italy is so arrogant as to possess a fleet for war purposes, because other nations have ships only for fishing or for taking pleasure trips...
After leading the fleet for four-fifths of the race, the Crimson 150-pounders finished third in their event Saturday in the American Henley, rowed on the Schuylkill at Philadelphia. The Princeton lightweights, rallying in the last quarter-mile, won, with the Penn oarsmen placing second. Yale, an eight which defeated Harvard in the trials, finished last in the finals...