Word: maltas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blissful squadron cruised leisurely about the Mediterranean, then settled down to a blockade of Tripoli. During the siege a seaman's wife on the flagship Chesapeake bore a child in the forecastle. When the Commodore's wife began expecting, Morris lifted the blockade and sailed off to Malta so that she could be delivered in style...
...chill, grey dawn, near Malta, Mont., some 250 people waited nervously. John Q. Stewart, Princeton astronomer, and General Electric's James Stokley, old hands who had worked on three previous eclipses, frowned blackly at the cloud-covered eastern sky. They had rehearsed for weeks for this event. They had taken a Lloyds insurance policy against the disaster of a cloudy day. They and their 60 assistants (including famed Princeton Physicist Ira Freeman and his wife), were primed with cameras, light meters, other eclipse-recording paraphernalia...
...MALTA AND YALTA...
Happily for the press, one capable U.S. newsman was on deck: Presidential Secretary Steve Early, an old A.P. hand. He not only helped get out the Big Three's communiqué, but was probably responsible for such side stories as the conference at Malta, and the news that Bronx Boss Ed Flynn went along. The New York Daily News's Columnist John O'Donnell, whose words of praise for anything Rooseveltian are rare as a miser's largesse, was moved to remark: "The best job of reporting that the competent Early has turned in since...
...Malta to Yalta. For his second conference of the Big Three and his ninth with Winston Churchill, the President departed from Washington shortly after his Jan. 20 inauguration. He appeared at Malta on Feb. 2 on a bright and spotless U.S. battleship. He was wearing an old-fashioned tweed...