Word: rear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seldom that one man in a lifetime?even a lifetime of 78 years? engages in as many stirring events as fell to the lot of Rear Admiral Charles Dwight Sigsbee, U. S. N., retired. He died last week in Manhattan, where he had lived since his retirement in 1907, and general notice was taken of the death of the man who commanded the Maine at the time of its sinking in Havana harbor...
...Army Air Service feels that it has a hard task to convince conservative admirals that there is something to the aeroplane after all, Rear Admiral William S. Sims, retired, needs no convincing. The Admiral closed a recent statement by saying that our great commercial ports, our navy yards and other vital positions will be rendered safe from attack only if we can concentrate more planes at the threatened point than the enemy fleet can bring from across the sea. He declared air defense would be successful " provided the defense is not messed up by the presence of our battleships within...
...delegates looked to the rear of the gallery, where two men and a woman were seated apart...
Headed by the dreadnought Arkansas, flagship of Rear Admiral Archibald H. Scales, the battleships Florida, Delaware and North Dakota arrived in Copenhagen for a ten-day visit...
Although the Presidential Special had no scheduled stop before reaching St. Louis, it halted frequently and the President made extempore speeches from the rear platform and shook hands with all who came near. Mrs. Harding, always by his side, explained that her physicians did not allow her to shake hands, but she wished she might. Little boys, farmers in overalls, railroad workers, all enjoyed the Presidential good will...