Word: samoa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy. To hold this empire the navy maintains for its fighting fleets large stations at Guantanamo Bay (leased from Cuba under a treaty), at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, at Cavite near Manila, small ones at St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, at Guam, Panama, Samoa and Olongapo. Policing the Caribbean is the Special Service Squadron under Rear Admiral Edward Hale Campbell. On its beat along the China coast moves the Asiatic fleet of two cruisers, 19 destroyers, auxiliary vessels, gunboats on the Yangtze River...
...retired; at Washington; of heart disease. Commanding the U. S. S. Dolphin, he took part in more engage- ments, captured more prizes than any other officer in the Spanish-American war. In 1889 as executive officer of the U. S. S. Trenton he was at Apia, Samoa, when possession of the island was contested by Great Britain, Germany, the U. S. When a tidal wave drove ashore the warships of the three countries, he ordered his doomed ship's band to play the "Star-spangled Banner" while lashed to the rigging...
...linguistic feature is an interesting one," said Putnam. "With a focus at the Malay Peninsula the great Malay-Polynesian group of languages is spoken west to Madagascar, and east of New Guinea to Fiji, Hawaii, Samoa, and all the islands of Polynesia. But in the unattractive interior of New Guinea, untouched by the conquering Malay speaking peoples, are the Papuans, who speak about sixty languages, related neither to the Malay-Polynesian, nor to each other...
...dozens of little islets out in a tropic sea, where one's word is law and where the palm leaves wiggle in approbation,-such is the destiny of Captain Waldo Evans, U. S. N. retired, onetime commandant of the Great Lakes (Ill.) Naval Training Station, onetime Governor of Samoa, who was last week appointed by President Coolidge to be "king" of the Virgin Islands. His official title is Governor, but he is the sole military, civil and judicial head of the islands and is responsible to no one except the President. Few would be the wiser...
That must have been an ancient Naval Register which you consulted before telling your readers that Captain E. S. Kellogg was Governor of American Samoa...