Word: rowboats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vacationing in Venice, Winston Churchill was behaving in a strangely camera-shy fashion. An Italian newsreel cameraman managed to get some pictures, only to lose them when a bodyguard snatched the film. Two other photographers in a rowboat had better luck when they caught Churchill in the surf, where the only thing he could do was splash water at them. He cooled his nerves later in the casino, where he played roulette until...
Francis P. Matthews, the U.S. Navy's "rowboat" Secretary (asked about his Navy experience when named to the post in 1949, Matthews replied, "Well, I do have a rowboat at my summer home"), was nominated by President Truman last week for a job he has long wanted: Ambassador to Ireland. His four grandparents were born there...
...Pearl Harbor, Secretary of the Navy Francis P. ("Rowboat") Matthews said he was off on a tour of the Pacific "in order to better equip myself for performance of my duties...
While he lived in Washington, Rhee spent most of his leisure time outdoors. He took great pleasure in mowing his lawn, spent many a Sunday afternoon in a rented rowboat fishing the Potomac. Aside from an occasional game of tennis with his wife, his only active sport was croquet, also a favorite game of former Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who had so stubbornly ignored the claims of Rhee's government. One afternoon in 1943 Rhee interrupted a croquet game with some friends to tune in a broadcast of the Cairo Conference communique. He listened quietly to the communique...
...good Democrat, a prominent Roman Catholic layman (a Papal Chamberlain with Cape and Sword), and a dedicated and fervent antiCommunist. One of the things he is not is a military strategist (he admitted, when he became Secretary, that his knowledge of naval affairs was confined to operating a rowboat). As Navy Secretary, he had apparently got to thinking of the danger of being Pearl...