Word: naval
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will states that the study may include either peaceful or martial aspects of the naval history and points in particular to how the maritime area has "affected and may affect the security and progress of the U.S.A...
...columns of print in their Clipsheet, the Methodists cried: "Shocking! . . . an astonishing breach of Naval discipline. . . ."As for teetotaling fighting men, "many of the greatest military men the world has produced have been notably abstemious." Among them the Methodists listed Sergeant York, Jimmy Doolittle,* Robert E. Lee, Jeb Stuart and Stonewall Jackson, who "feared whiskey more than bullets." "Perhaps," said Clipsheet drily, "the Admiral would not 'trust' these...
...Marx, Czechoslovakia's President Thomas Masaryk discussed war guilt. Colonel E. M. House and Massachusetts' intransigent nationalist Henry Cabot Lodge argued the merits of the League of Nations. Britain's Viscount Grey chose Foreign Affairs for his declaration on freedom of the seas during the London naval conference, and Foreign Minister Georges Bidault had recently argued France's case for control of the Ruhr...
...William D. Leahy, chose this moment to admit that he had never been properly initiated. He confessed that in 1898, when he first crossed the line as a midshipman on the U.S.S. Oregon, he had bought off the shellbacks with a keg of beer - a custom then permitted on naval vessels...
...From the carrier Midway, somewhere off Bermuda, a German V-2 roared out, veered sideways, exploded six miles away. Navy spokesmen blamed a defective steering gyro for the erratic flight. The shipboard launching, they said, was successful. Success or not, it officially opened a new era of naval warfare...