Word: puget
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a sail up Puget Sound, the President Grant's distinguished junketeers were entertained at dinner at Victoria, B. C. by the Province's Premier. There the Mayor of Victoria confessed he did not know whether to call Mr. Garner "Mr. Vice President" or "Your Excellency." Chuckled Mr. Garner: "Just call me Jack...
...sheet was flown from the rear of the Weyerhaeuser home, visible far out on Puget Sound and apparently a signal to the kidnappers. Mrs. Weyerhaeuser departed for Seattle and two notices were published, according to the kidnappers' directions, in the Post-Intelligencer, the first saying, "expect to be ready to come Monday," the second pleading: "Due publicity beyond our control please indicate another method reaching you. Hurry relieve anguished mother." But the week-end passed without George's return. Of all George's friends and relations, most optimistic was his schoolteacher. Said she: "He has such...
Tacoma, Wash., May 28--A contact with the kidnapers of George Weyerhaeuser--or even his safe return--was confidently expected momentarily by the family tonight as it gathered once more in the living room of the stately dwelling overlooking Puget Sound...
While a smaller detachment proceeded to Puget Sound, the main force paused at San Francisco. Then spade-bearded, air minded Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves, one of the few Fleet Commanders-in-Chief to be distinguished with a second year's term, steamed into the Pacific at the head of his flotilla. With that, absolute censorship clapped down. On land, less than a dozen officers in the Navy's Operations Office at Washington knew with any accuracy the day-to-day whereabouts of the nation's first line of defense. "Confidential." Except for bare statistics, official Naval announcements...
Scene of the operations, Secretary Swanson told newshawks, would be the Puget Sound-Alaska-Hawaii "triangle." Contrary to pacifists' beliefs, the fleet would at no time approach within 2,000 mi. of Japanese territory or the Japanese fleet. Furthermore, on May 3, simultaneously with the beginning of the maneuvers. Admiral Frank Brooks Upham, commander-in-chief of the Asiatic Fleet, would steam into Yokohama harbor on his flagship Augusta for a "good will" visit. While this year's Pacific maneuvers involve the greatest tonnage since the War, the Secretary pointed out that the Navy has more tonnage available...