Word: seadogs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Naval Service ("Wrens"), a unit of 2,000 who work at naval bases as cooks, bookkeepers, cipherers, but none on ships. Their head is Mrs. Laughton Matthews, daughter of Sir John Laughton, the naval historian, and sister of a lieutenant commander on the Royal yacht. A weatherbeaten lady seadog, she was the first woman administrator sent to base in the last war, spent the peace with the girl scouts. Her women wear navy blue (with blue rating marks instead of the Navy's red), get paid a little less than standard naval wages and grumble a bit because...
...bits of Nelsoniana. One sentimental antiquarian bid nine guineas (about $47) for the manuscript of the Trafalgar prayer. Hottest bidding, however, was over a wisp of hair, which the auctioneer swore had been cropped from Nelson's pate by his vivacious and tenacious mistress, Lady Emma Hamilton. The seadog's wisp was knocked down...
...hearings, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, said his last say in behalf of the bill. According to him, the Navy needed every penny of the money because costly $65,000,000 battleships were still the best available allaround naval weapons. The nation's highest ranking seadog announced that "recent air operations on the Coast of China" had convinced him that airplanes alone could not prevent an enemy expeditionary force from landing, and that airplanes alone could not successfully prevent a blockade or act as a convoy...
Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Navy is Franklin D. Roosevelt but Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet, topranking sailor afloat, must be a truly professional seadog. Last week Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson recommended to Commander-in-Chief Roosevelt for approval before Feb. 1 a batch of Navy shifts and promotions, most important of which will give the Navy a new CINCUS. To replace 60-year-old Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn, scheduled for commandant of the 12th Naval District with headquarters in San Francisco, Secretary Swanson named the present Commander of the Battle Force...
...their own adjourning, but for Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, for Japanese Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira and for U. S. Ambassador Norman Hezekiah Davis the big moments last week were when each was called separately to Buckingham Palace. Each was questioned closely by George V, in his youth an active seadog, today primed with an amazing fund of naval knowledge and a still more amazing vocabulary of naval oaths...