Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States has no single harbor equipped to maintain the Atlantic fleet in case of war," Admiral William S. Sims, U. S. N. retired, stated to a gathering in the Adams House common room in the course of a discussion of over two hours which broke up with the center table covered with matches illustrating the "ripple movement" at the Battle of Jutland...
Playing a somewhat drab example of football, the Harvard 150-pound, football team yesterday overcame the Andover third eleven by a single touchdown on the Soldiers Field gridiron. The Harvard touchdown, the only one of the game, came when Dearborn, fleet Crimson signal caller, turned a fumble by the visiting team into a score for the light-weights, and a 7 to 0 victory...
...that members of the Fascist Party may again belong to the Catholic clubs Azione Cattolica and vice versa. Spurred Italy's rapidly expanding mer chant marine by inducing all the larger Italian lines to merge last week into a new operating trust, the Lloyd Orientale. The mammoth merged fleet includes Vulcania (Cosulich), the Conte Grande and Conte Biancamano (Lloyd Sabaudo). Rumor named Count Costanzo Ciano. Minister of Communications and father-in-law of Daughter Edda. as the destined board chairman of Lloyd Orientale, thus making Italy's entire merchant marine a Mussolini-Ciano family affair. Expanded plans...
...their damp stone offices in Whitehall, last week, the Sea Lords of the British Admiralty pondered how to prevent another gassing of the fleet, another explosion of Jack Tar's touchy sense of fair play. Hardboiled, their Lordships reduced the greatest mutiny in 134 years to terms of money. They announced that Jack Tar will not have to take the 25% wage cut he mutinously refused; but he must take, added the Lords of Admiralty...
Reports from British warboats last week were that Jack Tar everywhere took his 10% cut with glum obedience, showed no further symptoms of gas. ¶ First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Austen Chamberlain announced that Admiral Sir Michael Hodges, Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, had requested to be relieved because of illness (he was on sick leave during the mutiny); that the King had appointed Vice Admiral Sir John Kelly to succeed...