Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Overhead droned and Doomed in salute 100 naval aircraft. Slipped and slithered beneath the waves a goodly representation of the 98 submarines built or building, which ensure the safety of France from her friends, since the navies of her enemies have been virtually destroyed. Most potent of the new French surface ships are the cruisers Duquesne and Tourville, each of 10,000 tons, and capable of hurtling toward an enemy at 40 miles an hour...
French editors professed to be shocked, last week, that the U. S. had lavished on naval appropriations, since the armistice, five times as much as France. Citizens of the U. S. are vexed when they reflect that France has lavished enough to pay off one-fifth of her debt...
Director of Naval Communications at Washington, Captain Wat Tyler Cluverius of the U.S.S. West Virginia and Captain Albert Ware Marshall of the aircraft-carrier Lexington were the first three additions to the rear-admiral list, of which the authorized number is 54. Three vacancies awaited their immediate promotion. In August, when Rear-Admiral Edward W. Eberle retires for age, his place will be filled by Captain Harry Ervin Yarnell, now commanding the other new aircraft-carrier U.S.S. Saratoga. Then comes Captain Arthur J. Hepburn, Chief of Staff of the Pacific battleship division. For Captain Hepburn, the added braid, honor...
...Naval authorities, less interested in records than in significance, hailed the cruise of the Lexington as evidence of far-sighted building. No British carrier (Glorious, Furious, Courageous) is so big or so fast as the U. S. Lexington, Saratoga. The Japanese Akagi and Kaga would be outdistanced in a day. Carrying some 76 planes, the Lexington and Saratoga could steam to join the fleet in midocean, send out a battle squadron and keep a strong unit for self-defense...
Tardiness obliged Midshipman Larry Cardwell to borrow and wear his neighbor's clothes one day in 1926 at the U. S. Naval Academy. He was dismissed. Tardiness by Congress in passing a bill to reinstate Midshipman Cardwell, or tardiness by President Coolidge in signing the bill, would have left Midshipman Cardwell in disgrace. But Congress acted in time and so, last week, with six hours to spare, did President Coolidge. The bill set forth that Midshipman Cardwell, an honest youth, had simply been pressed for time. His good name stands clear...