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...Naval Academy is the key to U.S. security. And through 96 years the Academy has educated its "young gentlemen" according to a prescription written by the nation's great naval heroes, notably John Paul Jones, who said that a naval officer must be not only a competent sailor but "a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy and the nicest sense of personal honor...
...seaman confined earlier for misconduct dashed to his post at an antiaircraft gun. A hospitalized officer brushed aside his nurses when the first alarm was sounded, ran across the Yard to his ship. So effectively did he fight, despite his illness, that his captain recommended promotion. One tough sailor, unable to find a mount for a heavy machine gun, fired the weapon from his arms despite terrific rapid-fire concussion...
Labor's representatives: A.F. of L. 's President William Green, C.I.O.'s President Philip Murray, John Lewis, pinko Sailor-man Joseph Curran; A.F. of L.'s John Coyne, John Frey, George Meany, Dan Tobin, Matthew Woll; C.I.O.'s R. J. Thomas, Emil Rieve, Julius Emspak...
...companies are anxious for soldier-&-sailor business (World War I battle mortality was 53 per 1,000 per year, normal is only 7 per 1,000). They discourage all such applicants, suggest they let the U.S. insure them. The U.S. will. During World War I, the Government wrote $40 billion of life insurance on its armed forces, of which 605,716 policies with a face value of $2,565,000,000 (converted from term insurance) were still in force last year. Since passage of the National Service Life Insurance Act last year, the Veterans Administration has written around...
...note from Mrs. E. E. Abbott, wife of a sailor, to her mother: "Philadelphia is . . . the most intemperate city in the Union. . . . Almost every man and boy drinks, or else you are a saint...