Word: naval
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opposing the batmen during the nine-day recess will be teams from the Naval Training Station. North Carolina, Duke, Georgetown, and finally Navy...
Soldier. Born in 1892 at El Ferrol, in Galicia, the son of a naval officer, Francisco Franco was given routine military education. He entered the military school at the Alcázar, Toledo, at 14, was graduated with a commission at 17, went soon after to Morocco. Even then Spain was fighting its interminable war with the Riffs. Adolescent Lieutenant Franco was wounded once, was decorated several times for bravery...
British permission to build American naval and air bases at Trinidad. Bermuda, and Newfoundland are also called for in the proposals. The French would be asked for permission to use island bases in the Pacific and the Atlantic, which would be of great strategic value to the United States in war time...
...Naval Science Department, which is limited to 200 men by federal law, will have no such increase in the enrollment, C. H. J. Keppler, captain of the U. S. Navy and professor in Naval Science and Tactics, stated yesterday, Congress has authorized R. O. t. C. units to be established at two new universities, but it has not changed the Harvard Unit, he explained...
...navy strong enough to meet any power in Japan's own waters. So far, there is no indication that Britain or the U. S. would under any conditions send into the western Pacific tonnage greater than the total Japanese tonnage. But the chief effect of Japan's naval ambitions is to encourage qualitative rather than quantitative competition from the other powers. Example: Having heard rumors that Japan is building two giant battleships of between 40,000 and 46,000 tons, the British forthwith planned the Lion and Temeraire, each 40,000 tons, and the U. S. drew plans...