Word: reared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's fourth commissioning was spectacular. Naval officers in dress uniform brightened the crowd of 600 special guests on the pier. From the quarter-deck Rear Admiral Louis McCoy Nulton read official orders putting the Constitution into active service. The colors and jack were hoisted, the first watch set. Command of the vessel was turned over to Commander Louis J. Gulliver...
...Observance & Enforcement, its legal life ended. Twentyfive months ago President Hoover called it into being as his first and greatest special agency. Its eleven members trooped importantly to the White House. President Hoover made them a speech of welcome in the Cabinet Room. Photographs were taken on the rear posing-ground. An elaborate luncheon was served in the State dining room. Press headlines throughout the land blared the news. Last week there were no White House ceremonies, no Hoover speech of thanks, no news pictures, no luncheon, no big headlines...
Stirring speeches at the mass meeting were made by Rear-Admiral Murray Eraser Sueter, M. P., and Brigadier-General Sir Henry Page Croft. M. P., as well as by Commander Locker-Lampson, M. P. Cards printed as follows were distributed: "Do you approve of the use of Fear God! Fear Naught! as our motto? . . . the use of March On as our battle song? . . . the use of a distinctive color...
...first came under fire, in fighting with the late Enomoto's Kwaiten; studied in England, '71-73; in the Japan-China War commanded the cruiser Naniwa and sank the Chinese transport Kowsing, a British steamer flying the British flag (see p. 39); Rear-Admiral after the War; Vice-Admiral in '90; Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet in the '04-05 War and hero of the Japan Sea battle fought on 27th May, '05; Full Admiral, '04; Chief of Naval Staff. '05; Supreme War Councillor, '09; Admiral of Fleet...
...will conduct his campaign for re-election next year balanced up the trip's profit & loss. On his excursion the President behaved like a candidate, even if he did not talk like one. He took local Republican leaders aboard his special train for political hobnobbing. From the rear platform of his car he conversed easily with boys about dogs and fishing. He unbent to the point of making several extemporaneous speeches. He shook thousands of hands...