Word: hampton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was no substantial duplication between them. In 1929, however, the Army, jealous of the Navy's growing aerial land strength began agitating for a change. The Army's patent purpose was to get for itself the money the Navy was spending on land planes and land bases at Hampton Roads, San Diego, Pearl Harbor and Panama Canal Zone by showing that their operation was not necessary to the fleet...
...rush, asked through an interpreter to be directed to the Mayo Clinic, discovered he was in the wrong Rochester (there are 16 in the U. S.). Since delay might prove disastrous, Octogenarian Read chartered a plane to Baltimore, was shortly under the care of famed Urologist Hugh Hampton Young of the Brady Clinic, Johns Hopkins hospital...
...Sailors itched for shore leave. Aboard the flagship Texas was Admiral William Veazie Pratt, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet, who, with other three-starred naval officers, received the formal welcome of city officials. For ten days the fleet would rest at anchor, then steam down to Hampton Roads where it hoped to be reviewed by President Hoover...
...fleet's arrival more by what came over in the air than by what lay in the water or, later, walked in the streets. Simultaneously with the battleships an enormous naval air fleet visited New York City. From the carriers Lexington, Saratoga and Langley lying miles away in Hampton Roads, via Washington where President Hoover stood at attention as they passed, 134 planes flew to a rendezvous at Staten Island, then swept up the bay over towered Manhattan. They flew in tight, three-plane V-formations which in turn formed larger Vs, a shining flock of metal hawks that...
...Hampton Choir. Coincidentally there sailed also on the De Grasse 40 musicians of a different color. They carried no fiddles, no trumpets. They were Negro singers, members of the Hampton Institute Choir (Hampton, Va.) bound for London where they will sing under the patronage of Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes and place a wreath on the tomb of David Livingstone in memory of his services to Africans; go thence to Antwerp, Brussels, The Hague, Amsterdam, Paris, Hamburg, Cologne, Berlin, Vienna and back to Paris by way of Switzerland. Unlike many a Negro musical organization the Hampton Choir can claim distinction...