Word: reared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them was Wesley L. Jones of Washington, Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee ; another was Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida, ranking Democrat of the same committee. The other two were members of the Merchant Marine Committee of the House. When the conference had concluded, Senator Jones announced that Rear Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, U. S. N., retired, had been chosen head of the Emergency Fleet Corporation...
...unified control is to be placed in the hands of Rear Admiral Palmer who, during the War, served as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation and later as Chief of Staff of a division of the Atlantic Battle Fleet. After the War he resigned. He was made Shipping Board Director for Brazil. Of late he has been attached to the Washington offices of the Board. On Jan. 5 he was to have sailed for London to represent the Board abroad. Instead he stays to be dictator over the Government's shipping policy as no Chairman of the Shipping Board...
Later the armored cruiser Rochester, flagship of the U. S. special service squadron in Central and South American waters, was sent to the port of Amapala, Honduras, under command of Rear Admiral Dayton. The measure was taken as a precautionary measure against harm to American life or destruction of American property...
...Died. Rear Admiral John Crittenden Watson, U. S. N., 81, retired. He served under Admirals Farragut and Dewey, was representative of the Navy at the coronation of King Edward VII of England. He was often called "the man that lashed Farragut to the rigging," because, during the battle of Mobile Bay, he thus safeguarded his commander, who insisted upon remaining in the rigging for a view of the battle...
...brothel. Joint maintenance of her honor and her offspring under such circumstances is magically accomplished in the best manner of melodrama. Matters seem to be mending until a vicious paternal grandfather appears and essays to take the child from her by law, alleging that she is not fit to rear her own. By a fortunate coincidence she is enabled to whisk the lad away to a friendly haven in England but only with the understanding that she never see him again...