Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough for one veteran Roosevelt-hater, flashy, pompous Correspondent John O'Donnell of the New York Daily News, who wrote a dispatch that certain "Senators" (he meant Mr. Tobey) now knew that the President had permitted the "escorting" of British ships to convoy rendezvous, using the Neutrality Patrol of Navy and Coast Guard boats. Next morning Mr. Roosevelt authorized Secretary Stephen T. Early to announce: "The President . . . thought the author of the story had very cleverly woven the longtime historic policy of the United States into a story which is a deliberate...
Coupled with the Greenland trial balloon, Mr. Roosevelt made it "evident . . . from the discussion with correspondents that he views the neutrality patrol as capable of almost unlimited extension and a means likely to protect shipping as effectively as convoys." "Neutrality patrol" is rapidly becoming synonymous to "convey...
...Germans withdrew, at least temporarily. One British advance patrol behind the German spearhead caught a Nazi infantry unit in busses, and annihilated...
...Navy's present battleships require destroyers, cruisers and aircraft to do the fast sea work, screen the battleships themselves, and maneuver the enemy within range of the main battle line. With faster battle ships, the Fleet should be able to release some destroyers for detached scouting and patrol...
...Halifax, the Canadian naval patrol boat Otter, 2,000 tons, burned and sank with loss of 19 lives. Until last year, the Otter was Vincent Astor's famed Nourmahal, on which Seadog Astor often took Franklin Roosevelt fishing...