Word: reared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...definite date has not yet been announced by the Union management, but Rear Admiral Billard will visit the University sometime during the second week in November, probably on Thursday, November...
Tentative arrangements have been made by the Union to secure Rear Admiral F. C. Billard, Commandant of the Coast Guard, to deliver a talk on the sea-fighting along...
Admiral Sims. Like Colonel Mitchell but in different manner and degree, Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims, retired, has been a stormy petrel. He possibly got his vigorous way of speaking from President Roosevelt, whom he served as naval aide from 1907 to 1909. But earlier than that he had protested to Mr. Roosevelt (in 1902) because his superior officers would not listen to him as he cried: "The protection and armament of even our most recent battleships are glaringly inferior to those of our possible enemies. . . . One or more of our ships would suffer humiliating defeat at the hands...
...called home and returned to his post at the Naval War College, reverting to his rank as Rear Admiral. An attempt was made to get him the permanent rank of Admiral, but it failed through Congressional bickering. He was offered a Distinguished Service Medal, but wrote to Secretary Daniels declining it, saying that in many cases such honors were given without dessert, and in others not given when...
Sims-not the Rear Admiral whose likenesses adorn the cover of this magazine, nor the Seattle lumberman whose name may be remembered*-but Charles Sims, R. A., portrait painter of smart repute in England, exhibited last week at the Knoedler Galleries, Manhattan...