Word: mate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...older brother, Edwin K. Buttolph wrote the song when he was an undergraduate at Hobart College, Geneva. N. Y., in the early '20's. The music was by a college mate and was first published in the Hobart College Song Book...
...hour before midnight the Akron was being buffeted severely by a thunderstorm. Bos'n's Mate Deal went about his business of taking ballast readings, carrying out ominous orders to shift ballast and fuel forward. At his next bit of testimony the committeemen hitched forward in their chairs...
...story: how he swam to a floating gas tank to which three other men were clinging; how they struggled to keep the open spout of the tank above water; how all hands shouted in unison to attract the lookout aboard the tanker Phoebus; how Machinist's Mate Rutan weakened and slipped into the sea and Radioman Copeland held on only to die later, while Deal and Metalsmith Moody S. Erwin were rescued. The Committee heard; but their minds dwelt on those snapping girders-an indication that the mighty Akron had buckled in the twisting storm before striking the water...
When dovetailed with Bos'n's Mate Deal's story, the report of Lieut.-Commander Herbert Vincent Wiley was illuminating. Commander Wiley read his statement to the Committee in a detached, hesitant manner, as if the story were a new and strange one which he had never heard before. Bringing the now familiar events up to the fateful "00:30 [12:30 a. m.] 4, April," he read: "A very sharp gust struck the ship. It seemed to be much more severe than any I have ever experienced in that it was exerted so suddenly ... a maximum...
...forced to drop into the pounding surf whence a small amphibian of the New York Police picked two officers, three enlisted men. A Coast Guard amphibian picked up the blimp's commander, Lieut.-Commander David E. Cummins, but he was beyond revival. The body of Machinist's Mate Pasquale Bettio was found later...