Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Port Newark, N. J., an Italian seaman with no love for Il Duce tipped off a customs official that Italian ships in U. S. ports were being systematically sabotaged by their crews. In a few hours word reached the President. Back came an order from the Potomac: seize all German and Italian ships to prevent their being further damaged; put all Danish ships in protective custody. In Washington, tall, mild, Acting Treasury Secretary Herbert Earle Gaston put his finger on Section I of Title II of the Espionage Act of June 15, 1917, authorizing seizure of foreign vessels "to prevent...
...flew out over the scene and saw hundreds of Italians on life rafts. British units came back and picked up over 900 men-and found two ways to rub into Benito Mussolini's hide his Axis commitments. They announced that there were 35 German officers, petty officers and seaman-gunners among the survivors. And the Admiralty declared: "It would have been possible to save 200 or 300 more but for attacks by German bombers on the ships engaged in the task of rescuing Italian seamen." Judging by the complements of the lost ships, about 1,500 Italians had perished...
White-haired, square-prowed Rear Admiral Chester William Nimitz, sitting with the House Naval Affairs Committee few weeks ago, took a look at the naval horizon through a seaman's spyglass. "Probably many of the Admirals of the future," said the Navy's Chief of the Bureau of Navigation (personnel boss), "will never have been to Annapolis." Committee members found this wild prophecy just funny. Since 1900 there have been no more than four officers of flag rank who were not Annapolis graduates: since 1914 not a single...
...Downing Street since then has become increasingly frank in appeals for a share of the American Navy. Now the same front groups which paved the way for F.D.R.'s earlier destroyer deal and the Lend-Lease Bill are calling for American ships manned by U. S. officers and seaman. The "short-of-war" line has been pushed by proponents of various convoy schemes to the Japanese definition: "War is when you declare...
...brawls, the friendships and conflicts of men too close together for too long a time. Included in the novel's 496-page sweep are three brilliant novelle: Ensign Woodbridge's encounter with the hypocritical missionaries, the story of the Irish monk and the satanic trader, Parker, and Seaman O'Connell on a berserk rampage. Included also is many a burst of virtuoso prose, in which Author Goodrich compares the ship to a walled town, to the Tower of Constance, to the Alamo, to anything that represents man's constant war against an unfriendly world...