Word: rear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rear Admiral Kittelle, who arrived with a destroyer squadron after the tragedy, reported that Captain Sparrow and the three men lost their lives "in a gallant attempt to maintain radio communication...
...Denby, and enlisted men at Lakehurst seem slow to volunteer with McCrary as their prospective chief. So far but 60 have signed up and of these only ten are eligible to go. They seem to think Captain Heinen and Commander Weyerbacher more experienced and more competent to take command. Rear Admiral William A. Moffet, chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, has advised Secretary Denby that he would like nothing better than to be detached from his present position and placed in command of the dirigible...
...Holiness Pope Pius XI received in private audience Rear Admiral Andrews, commanding U. S. naval forces in European waters; Captain Klemann, commanding the U. S. S. Pittsburgh; Lieutenant Commander King and Lieutenant Hunter. Father Burke, Vice Rector of the American College in Rome, formerly a naval chaplain, made the presentations. The Pope expressed pleasure at the visit, hoped that the fleet would have a successful cruise, gave the Papal benediction...
According to latest developments yesterday, the feature of the day will be a speech by Rear Admiral William S. Sims on the subject "The Undergraduate and the Eighteenth Amendment," at the 3.30 P. M. Mass Meeting at the Union. Admiral Sims recently delivered the same address before 2000 Yale students, and before almost the entire undergraduate body at Princeton...
...professional Jew-the Jew in politics. On a keen December evening "in ramshackle New York during the sprawling awkward age of its growth," Meyer, only child of sweatshop workers, grandson of a horse thief, returns from cheder (Hebrew school) to the "two little dark rooms in a rear house, kerosene lamps, water from the yard pump, toilet in back yard . . not even enough crockery or eating things," occupied by his parents and maternal uncle, Philip Gold. Nine years old, he is the brains of the Ludlow Street Gang...