Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Weeks, strangely enough, was a graduate of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, an institution with which the West Point athletic authorities are now at odds. However, this will not prevent the Corps as a body from honoring the memory of a former secretary...
...lame ducks" when Congress sits after the election. This conjunction of times was a happy one for the duckhunters of Barnegat Bay, N. J., and for Representative Harold G. Hoffman. The hunters spoke to Mr. Hoffman, who smiled and spoke to Lieut. Commander H. V. Wiley of the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, who bowed (figuratively) and spoke to his naval aviators, who said nothing but proceeded to obey a new order, viz.: the Navy's aircraft shall not fly over the duck-shooting sectors of Barnegat during the duck-shooting season. To do so scares the ducks, which are scared...
...great naval duckhunter is Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson, who likes to have a Navy plane carry and fetch him between Washington and the salt marshes during the duck season. The new Barnegat order is not likely to disturb Duckhunter Robinson, nor any other Washington dignitary. From Washington one does not go northeast to shoot the wary?and slightly fishy?birds of Barnegat. One either goes due east, to the swarming Chesapeake ; or southeast, to the Rappahannock, York and James estuaries, to the drowsy Virginia Capes, to Currituck (where the luxurious blinds are con crete and have...
...major resolution passed by the Congress was a thoroughgoing 2,000-word affair savagely flaying the Conservative Government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin for concluding their "secret" naval agreement with France (TIME...
There is to be a second team football game with the U. S. Naval Academy at the second team field tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock...