Word: fleets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rotorua, N. Z., Admiral Robert E. Coontz, Commander of the U. S. Fleet, was presented by a native tribe, the Arawa Maoris, with a casket for President Coolidge. The formerly cannibalistic donors expressed the hope that a treaty for world peace between the U. S. and Great Britain would eventually find in their casket a snug resting place...
...same day news was flashed from Washington that upon his return Admiral Coontz will surrender command of the Fleet to Admiral Samuel S. Robinson, and will be assigned as Commandant of the Fifth District Headquarters at Hampton Roads. He will then revert automatically to the rank of Rear Admiral...
...Zealand the U. S. fleet, landing at Wellington, Auckland, Dunedin and Port Lyttelton (Christ Church) in four divisions, paraded, was feted and feted again, gave entertainments in turn. It was the same story of gaiety as in the Australian ports (TiME...
...Shipping Board, repeated attempts have been made to reduce its operating expenses which were not long ago as high as $50,000,000 a year. Last year it got an appropriation of $30,000,000. This year it received $24,000,000. Admiral Palmer, President of the Emergency Fleet Corporation (actual operator of the Government merchant marine) estimated he would need $18,000,000 to cover losses next year. The Shipping Board, with more grandiose ideas, raised this estimate to $22,000,000, and tacked on $540,000 for its own expenses. General Lord made answer in effect...
According to The Daily Express, a London newspaper owned by Lord Beaverbrook (former William Maxwell Aitken, a Canadian), strong pressure is being exerted on the British Government to appoint Admiral of the Fleet Lord Beatty Governor General of Canada when Lord Byng retires next year. Failing him, Field Marshal Lord Haig is suggested...