Word: oak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accused was Commander Henry Martin Daniel. As a subordinate of Rear Admiral Collard aboard the flagship Royal Oak, he is charged with making known to brother officers complaints against the conduct of Rear Admiral Collard which were embodied in a letter written by Captain K. G. B. Dewar of the Royal Oak to superior naval officials. The act of making known the contents of this secret letter laid open Commander Daniel to the grave, technical charge of "subverting discipline by bringing a superior officer into contempt...
What's wrong? The answer can probably be found in the New Englander's reticence to ballyhoo himself and his community. He has been quietly going about his business for two centuries. His industrialism, deeprooted, has grown like an oak and not like a mushroom...
...truth, when it came out, was much less perturbing but more picturesque. There has been, it seems, a violent quarrel between the three superior naval officers aboard the Royal Oak, namely...
...Captain of the Royal Oak, Kenneth Dewar...
...comes on board, the captain then becoming (to use a military simile) the admiral's chief of staff. Ordinarily the possibilities of friction which lurk in such an interlocked command are smoothed over by the formulae of tradition. Last week, however, the captain and commander of the Royal Oak were understood to have filed complaints with the Admiralty alleging that Rear Admiral Collars had grossly and persistently overstepped the bounds of his authority and shamefully browbeaten his inferiors. Pending an investigation, all three officers were suspended, last week, and ordered to hurry from Malta to London, there to give...