Word: scrolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After two and a half years as the colorfully efficient guardian of the vital port of Los Angeles, 46-year-old Commander Frank David Higbee had a new assignment where he would undoubtedly originate more forecastle tales. With him he carried the thanks of Mayor Fletcher Bowron and a scroll from his enlisted men: "Just blow that whistle from Greenland's icy mountain to India's coral strand and there won't be a man jack of us left in California...
Moment of Sentiment. For tall, trim Captain Ellis Zacharias, as he left her for Washington after five combat actions to become Assistant Chief of Naval Intelligence, the crew of the Salt Lake City had a handsome testimonial. Their scroll recalled old Swayback's great fighting career, the raid on the Marshalls, the attack on Jap-held Wake, the days & nights at "general quarters" when the enemy was hammering at them with bomb and torpedo. "We say farewell to you with a deep sense of personal loss," it concluded...
...them on their heads. There were pledges, mite boxes (for children's pennies) which yielded as much as $100 a week. Special publicity promised church members who pledged even the smallest amount that their names and their children's names would be printed on a vast parchment scroll to be permanently displayed in a glassed niche cut in the church wall...
Next day, by invitation, he went to Borough Hall, received a scroll from the borough president. The 62nd Coast Artillery Corps Band played Anchors Aweigh. That evening Hero Bulkeley made a broadcast...
...Tokyo. Now he lives in a modest villa in the Tokyo suburbs. Early one morning last week there came to the modest villa a 33-year-old autograph hunter named Naohiko Nishiyama. While the kimonoed Baron obligingly painted his calligraph, Autograph Hunter Nishiyama whipped a revolver from a parchment scroll, fired thrice, missed once. Though wounded, the Baron gave chase, caught the visitor by the shirt, held him with the aid of a guard...