Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month U. S. newsreaders had their interest in spies aroused when in Los Angeles a onetime Navy yeoman named Harry Thomas Thompson was tried, convicted and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for selling U. S. Fleet secrets to a Japanese agent (TIME, July 6). Last week the name and face of onetime Lieut. Commander John Semer Farnsworth suddenly appeared on the front pages of the nation's Press when the Department of Justice accused him of betraying Naval secrets to Japan...
...Security, had it photo-stated, sold the copy to a member of the Japanese Embassy in Washington. This book, first published in 1916 and since revised, was, the Navy Department insisted, exclusively for responsible officers. Divulgence of its contents, officials implied, might necessitate a complete revamping of U. S. Fleet strategy...
...Britain's claim to "belligerent rights" to send a full fleet into the Black Sea in case of war with a Black Sea power, (i.e., Russia) had to be chopped because of Balkan outcries (TIME, July...
...years (she was 28). She had not thought seriously of marrying again, but when a fine young fellow like Jean asked her, she said yes. On her wedding day, though it went much against the grain, she thought it more fitting not to go out with the fishing fleet but to sit at home in idle dignity. Mme Toussaint soon found the hours dragging, found herself worrying about the new sleeping arrangements. The little cabin was already crowded: her daughter, almost grownup, slept in the same room with her. and the two littlest boys in the same...
Till after noon she kept her hardly-held dignity. Then, at the news that shrimp were running, that prices had gone up, that the fleet was shorthanded, Mme Toussaint cast decorum to the winds, bundled her brood into the boat, the Six Little Brothers, set off to lend her efficient aid. It was late that night before the weary fishermen returned, to watch Mme Toussaint and Jean jump over the broomstick together. And as the overworked engine of the Six Little Brothers had broken down, the bride and groom never...