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...Winston if you like." The rhyme: "My U-boats are under the ocean, My Graf Spee is under the sea, My Hitler is in a commotion, Oh don't mention Winston to me." Proud Papa Shakespeare read it at an Anglo-American Community Chest luncheon Representative Charles Albert Plumley of Vermont told the House of Representatives that he was "astounded" when he saw a picture in LIFE of Admiral James Otto Richardson, Commander in Chief of the U. S. Fleet, with an autographed photograph of King George VI at his elbow. It was "grossly indiscreet," said Mr. Plumley; thereupon...
...Politicians are apt to say a great many things," stated an officer in the R.O.T.C. yesterday while refuting the charge of Representative Plumley of Vermont...
...hearlings on the Naval Appropriations bill in Washington Plumley labeled R.O.T.C. units at Harvard and Yale as clubs for gentlemen, but a student enrolled in Naval Science parrled with the retort, "If midshipmen at Annapolis are taught to be gentlemen officers, why not at Harvard...
...leviathans. Even these would be 30,000 tons bigger than the biggest now in the U. S. fleet, 23,900 tons bigger than Great Britain's Hood (biggest afloat), and would be too bulky to get through the Panama Canal. Said Sub-Committeeman Charles Albert Plumley of Northfield, Vt., thumbing his Yankee nose at the British: "I'm sick and tired of just match, match. This matching game is absurd. I want a winning team...
...port, which were vetoed by President Roosevelt on the ground that no private concern should own the Capital's airport. Threatened with loss of their jobs, pilots gave in, still uneasily use the field. Before last session's Congress Vermont's Republican Representative Charles A. Plumley thundered, "Washington-Hoover Airport is . . . both a public menace and a national disgrace." Since 1928 a total of 49 possible airports, from marsh lands to race tracks, have been examined, but so far none has been found that is both politically and aeronautically safe. Meantime, various committees and the District Airport...