Word: fleets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...failing in this, he must use every effort of his own to obtain it in order to better execute the general plan, and by so doing aid the efforts of the leader. This is imperative and is believed to be much more in accord- ance with destroyer and fleet doctrine than to blindly follow the leader...
...William R. Hearst is sometimes given credit for having started the Spanish-American war. Incidentally, it was Mr. Hearst's papers which sent Eastern children and nursemaids shivering to bed by the headline: SPANISH FLEET SIGHTED. Next morning it transpired that the fleet had been sighted in the far-off Caribbean. -The Infanta Isabel (born 1851) is the aunt of King Alfonso...
Henceforth the British Review of Reviews will be owned and edited by Wickham Steed. Steed was formerly Lord Northcliffe's man; he ap- peared in the U. S. with Northcliffe when the Fleet Street colossus made his tour of the world in 1921. For Northcliffe he edited the London Times. The monthly he now controls was founded in 1890 by W. T. Stead...
Greek Protest. At the time of authorizing the payment of the indemnity by the Swiss National Bank to the Bank of Italy, Greece lodged a protest with the Council of Ambassadors. She said that the Italian fleet had returned to Corfu (Italy denied this) and that she had not shown negligence in trying to discover the Janina criminals. Under the latter heading she pleaded extenuating circumstances, stating that, she was unable to pursue investigations on Albanian soil, where the murderers are presumed to have sought refuge...
...seems a pity that two boats cannot be selected on a basis of competition from each fleet of the genuine fishing craft, and then pitted against each other status quo. To all intents and purposes the fishing schooners of the North-eastern Atlantic fleets are practically alike. While nobody wants or expects a thirty-foot boat to be pitted against a fifty-footer, a race between the best of each fleet would certainly leave the seamanship to decide the issue. It is only a step from requiring change of sail areas to requiring changes of model, and then the evolution...