Word: panay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of TIME, Dec. 27, you refer to the U. S. S. Panay as a grimy little gunboat. Certainly she was a small vessel, but never grimy...
Some three years I served in China, most of that time spent in duty with the Yangtze patrol, aboard the coal-burner Monocacy. Several times I have been aboard the Panay. There was not a cleaner ship in the U. S. Navy...
...ships of the Yangtze Patrol, the hull and superstructure of the Panay was white, the stacks orange. The ships are kept immaculately clean at all times. The paintwork is scrubbed so often the paint never becomes thick enough to require chipping...
...words Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote to Speaker William Bankhead, such the words Speaker Bankhead read to the House just before it voted on the Ludlow Resolution, calling for a national referendum before declaring war. The letter served its purpose perfectly. The resolution, brought up at the height of the Panay crisis (TIME, Dec. 27), was sent back to committee, presumably to stay, by a vote...
Before the Japanese encircled Nanking, the gunboat Panay-day before it was sunk-evacuated most foreigners from the doomed city and the Chinese defense commander, General Tang Sheng-chi, fled, leaving his officers and men to their fate. During the four terrible days between the departure of the Panay and the arrival of the Japanese fleet, Nanking was a flaming chaos without government, without telephones, electricity or water supply. Not many more than a score of white men, most of them Americans and most of the Americans missionaries, remained during the siege in which the Japanese slaughtered 33,000 Chinese...