Word: naval
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Naval Academy at Annapolis, eyeing little old St. John's College's 32-acre campus across the street, has long coveted its neighbor's land (TIME, Oct. 15). Last week, having met stony, well-organized resistance and having failed to establish a beachhead, the Navy retired. St. Johnnies, testifying for a year before the House Naval Affairs Committee, had thrown their 100 Great Books at the Navy and statistics to show that St. John's was the nation's third oldest college. The Congressional committee told the Navy to find somewhere else to expand...
...clock: Candidates for degrees and students of the Naval Training Schools will assemble under the direction of their respective marshals: speakers, candidates for degrees of A.B., S.B., Adj.A., and candidates for Naval Commissions in front of Thayer; candidates for degrees of A.M., Ph.D., and other graduate degrees along diagonal path from Thayer to Hollis...
...Supply Corps School, the nation's only school devoted exclusively to the training of Naval officers for supplying, clothing, feeding, and paying U.S. Naval personnel, will be moved to the Naval Supply Operational Training Center at Bayonne, New Jersey...
Opened at the Navy Yard at Philadelphia in 1934, the school moved to Harvard in 1941 and consolidated with the newly-organized Naval Reserve Supply Corps School which had moved here from Washington, D.C. Under Captain McIntosh's command, the school expanded from its first class of 35 officers, which graduated in July, 1941, to an enrollment of 2300 officers with branches at Wellesley and Babson Institute, and with a division for WAVE officers at Radcliffe...
...Peace Conference in 1919, "were King George and Queen Mary." The King made a little quip; the Queen "was not greatly amused"; they all had a nice lunch. While in Paris for the Peace Conference, the Secretary went to the opera with Admiral W. S. Benson, U.S. Naval Adviser. Benson was "shocked at the near nakedness of the actresses and the risque remarks," and wanted to walk out. Says Daniels: "I quite shared his feelings but told him that as we were the guests of the French Government" it would be impolite to leave. The opera: Saint-Saens' Henry...