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...this year for persons enlisting in Class V-7 of the U. S. Naval Reserve, A. L. Madden, Lieutenant Commander, U. S. N. R., revealed last night. After a 30-day period as apprentice seamen, those who qualify will be given a 90-day course as reserve midshipmen and will receive commissions as reserve ensigns at the end of this time...
Supper that evening was served in a private dining room; athletic teams usually eat in the large hall with the rest of the midshipmen. At supper a telegram arrived, signed by William J. Bingham, the Harvard director of athletics, stating that Alexis was not to dress or play against the Naval Academy...
Reference by Admiral Willson to colored cadet at Annapolis illustrates Navy standard of honesty, since this lad was literally driven from the Academy by the treatment accorded him by Midshipmen and Faculty members alike. Naval Academy action is of a piece with Navy policy which restricts Negro enlistments to mess attendants only, and illustrates perfectly hypocrisy of war-cry against totalitarian cruelties while practising same doctrines here in America. Of course Harvard should have refused to play. (signed) Roy Wilkins, Assistant Secretary, N.A.A.C.P...
...rain had become a downpour. The Presidential yacht Potomac was tied up at the Severn Basin; while midshipmen and officers snapped to attention, the Executive flag broke out from the foremast, the President was piped over the side. On the King George V arrangements were made for the President to come aboard; but the Potomac only circled the huge battleship, slowly, to give the President a good look. A guard of honor of Royal Marines stood at present arms on deck and the band played The Star-Spangled Banner. A launch carried Lord and Lady Halifax from the King George...
...more, laughed more easily. It cheered the silk-hatted, beaver-collared President (who had borrowed Joe Davies' fur-lined overcoat). It watched with unexcited approval as General Marshall on his bay horse, King Story, went by with six aides and a cavalry troop, West Point cadets and Annapolis midshipmen. Brand new grey-green Fords rolled by interminably, carrying Governors and dignitaries. There were CCC boys in green uniforms, NYA girls in blue and white dresses, a Negro WPA company, whose straggling ranks and struggling salutes to the President gave watchers their only laugh in the grim military parade...