Word: midshipman
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...shout of the day, rolling away down the river valley. At commencement time every U. S. school & college delights in singling out for honor the winners in its four-year race. West Point and Annapolis, however, keep from the beginning a point record of each cadet's, each midshipman's scholarship and conduct. At the end his class standing can be computed with an adding machine. Each academy releases to the Press a complete list of its graduating class, with ranking. West Point hands out its diplomas in that order. As Cadet Richardson of Gibson Island, Md., trim...
...Czechoslovakia, onetime King Alfonso denied he had any hand in the revolt, expressed grief over the bloodshed. His third son, Prince Juan Carlos, who was reported to have been the royalists' choice for King, was in a Ceylon hospital with malaria he had caught while cruising as a midshipman on the British cruiser Enterprise. From Mexico City Spanish Ambassador Alvarez del Vayo called Minister of Public Works Indalecio Prieto by transatlantic telephone. "Why are you sad?" he asked. "Is the revolution succeeding?" Replied Minister Prieto: "I am sad because this call is costing 15 pesetas a minute. The Republic...
...Academy should not be "bothered with brides and babies." Revived was an order revoked in 1912 forbidding marriage of ensigns until they have had two years at sea. But this year's graduates may marry: the Department made the. ruling effective in 1933 so that any third-year midshipman with his mind now on marriage has a full year to change...
Outside Congress, he lives with his wife on an old five-acre farm in the suburb of Berwyn, Md. He is not socially inclined. For amusement he walks, goes to concerts, listens to his wife read aloud. One son is an Annapolis midshipman; another is in a preparatory military school. His nine-year-old daughter Peggy he used to carry with him on the House floor when he was a Congressman. Children are barred from the Senate chamber...
Franklin Buchanan, probably named after the late great Ben Franklin, was born in Baltimore in 1800. At 15 he entered the U. S. Navy as midshipman, at $19 a month, and, like other midshipmen, found it hard to buy all the proper uniforms on that pay. At 23 he served under Commodore David Porter against the Caribbean pirates. Six years later he went as third lieutenant to the famed frigate Constellation, four years older than himself, which had spouted broadsides against the French, the English, the pirates of Tripoli. In 1835 he married Anne Catherine Lloyd of Baltimore, who bore...