Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University baseball team will play its initial game of the season against the Naval Academy at Annapolis on Wednesday, April 21. The team will not stay at the Naval Academy while it is in Annapolis during the spring vacation, according to an announcement made yesterday by Davidson Sommers '26, manager of the team, who gave out the details of the southern trip which the Crimson nine will take during the week of April...
Rage. The representatives of the Powers at Peking recalled the Boxer Protocol to the Chinese and threatened a joint naval intervention. Enraged factions staged the usual anti-foreign demonstration at Peking. The net result seemed that the mercenaries at the mouth of the Pei-ho fired a little less often...
...Perused with twinges of alarm a statement presented to it in the Government Blue Book that the U. S. Navy is now installing 5-inch anti-aircraft guns, whereas all British naval aircraft guns are of 1-inch calibre, and the guns formerly employed were 3-inch...
Died. Rear Admiral Richard ("Fighting Dick") Wainwright, 76, in the Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C., of heart failure. He was executive officer of the U. S. S. Maine when she was mined in Havana harbor by Spain. When the Spanish commandant ordered his men to strike the Maine's flag, he roared words long remembered in the Navy: "If a Spaniard touches the flag that flies over that wreck, there'll be another wreck in Havana harbor...
...Moscow, one Linton Wells, War-time U. S. naval aviation lieutenant, laid plans last week for a trip around the world in record time on which he will be accompanied in June by Edward S. Evans, wealthy Detroit sportsman. The travel time set was 25 days. Starting from Manhattan, the Globe-racers are to fly in 30 hours to Victoria, B. C., board the Empress of Russia, fastest (8-day) trans-Pacific vessel, jump from Japan to Vladivostok in a Japanese destroyer (it is hoped), spend nine days on the Siberian railroad, fly from Moscow to Berlin, to Amsterdam...