Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After four rivals withdrew, big (200 Ibs.) popular Wilbur C. ("Dan") Daniel, 42, a Danville, Va. textile executive, was elected commander of the American Legion for 1957. Daniel's military record: 88 days of service at naval training in 1944 terminated by a medical discharge...
...Britain's General Sir William Howe, having taken Brooklyn with "the largest expeditionary force Great Britain had ever assembled" (32,000 men, 200 ships), sent his redcoats across the East River to a landing at Kip's Bay (34th Street). Under the massed fire of 86 naval cannon, the Connecticut farm-boy defenders ran for their lives. General George Washington, taken by surprise, galloped down from his headquarters at the northern end of the island (now Coogan's Bluff, overlooking the Polo Grounds). "Take the wall," he shouted. "Take the cornfield." When the militiamen rushed unheeding past...
Undergoing intermittent treatment for an old knee injury at Bethesda Naval Hospital near Washington, Wisconsin...
...received a powerful endorsement from Woodrow Wilson's Administration, when Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan served grape juice at a state dinner in honor of retiring British Ambassador James Bryce. Next year, when Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels caused a national furor by outlawing hard liquor on naval ships and installations, outraged editorial writers and cartoonists did Welch's the favor of dubbing the U.S. fleet "the grape-juice Navy...
invited Bunny to join his outfit-the Royal Naval Division. Instead, Pacifist Bunny plumped for a corner of an English field and ended up in Surrey digging turnips and forking dung for a farmer...