Word: reared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pacing his room in a Manhattan hotel, Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, U. S. N. retired, said he was so perturbed by the cruiser news from Eng land that he could think of nothing else. He quoted, without naming, a high U. S. official who viewed the British move as a British bluff, an effort to discredit and obstruct the Coolidge program in the 70th Con gress, which meets this week...
...Boomed Rear Admiral Fiske: "The British interests demand that Britain shall continue to dominate the sea trade of the world and dominate it with British guns. Our interests demand an equal right upon the sea. We are rapidly coming to a point where, to use expressive slang, we've really got to put up or shut...
...Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder, reprimanded by the Navy Department and asked to make no more speeches as the result of his attacks on Navy inefficiency (TIME, Oct. 3 et seq.) , made a speech in Philadelphia last week ? a short speech meant not to be offensive. Among a few other things, he said: "I could make a speech here tonight that would bring headlines in tomorrow's papers. But I am not the type that seeks notoriety...
Prodding Gorhanson afresh, the convicts marched him to another door, opening from the rear of the cellhouse to the prison ballfield. They captured Guard Walter Neil on the way. At the ballyard door, Guard Neil was sent out first, then Guard Gorhanson. Before the convicts could follow, Guard Neil flung his weight against the door. Tony Brown, San Francisco thug, the convict with the "roscoe" (pistol), tried to shoot Neil's foot out of the way, but the lock clicked. The cursing convicts retired to secure the rest of their guards as hostages and hold a council...
...Died. Rear Admiral William Hannum Grubb Bullard, 60, suddenly, of heart trouble, at Washington, D. C. Died. Jon Bratiano, 63, powerful Premier and "iron man" of Rumania, four times (1908-10, 1912-18, 1922-26, July-November 1927) Prime Minister, foe of the exiled onetime Crown Prince Carol; in Bucharest; after three operations had been performed upon his throat...