Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kestrel, based at New London, when we received orders to proceed to Block Island. There we carried the Commandant of the Second Naval District, Captain Bryan (?), out to the Texas which was surprisingly close to the shore. For the next few days, armed with our "formidable" Three-Pounder, we patrolled the waters-or, as an Army friend put it, we "kept ourselves safe for democracy...
Incidentally, it was at Block Island on this occasion where I ran into a very "seagoing" Chief Boatswainsmate whom I had heard lecture on Dutch and Flemish Painting at Princeton. There, however, he was known as Professor Frank Mather of the Art Department...
Silent upon the shore of Coney Island, N. Y., one day last week, sat the Governor of South Dakota. It was the first time he had seen an ocean, or a razor-shell clam or an undertow or a beach littered with bottles, fruit crates, oil dregs, clinkers. The Governor of South Dakota is a witty man, as all can testify who heard his speech at the Jackson Dinner in Washington last fortnight. Confronted with an ocean, he said: "It looked pretty...
Although Porto Ricans are U. S. citizens, and although their island has been part of the U. S. since 1898, an appeal was transmitted, last week, to President Coolidge, asking that Porto Rico might be constituted "a free state...
...enlisted and fought in France for the Empire. Gallant, meteoric, he progressed to the Near East, and at barely 17 was made Governor of Zea (Ceos), an Aegean island on which he put down a rebellion, using British-French-Greek troops. Before the War ended he had returned to France, been wounded, then captured. When peace came he inherited $100,000 and tried to settle down. He is one Wilfred Thomas McCartney, British subject, even now barely...