Word: squadronal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Admiral Sir Frederick C. Doveton Sturdee, 66, in command of the victorious British fleet at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in November, 1914, where he sank the German cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Leipzig, Nürnberg which had previously defeated a British squadron at Coronel, off the coast of Chile; in Camberley, Surrey, England, of inflammation of the brain...
...well with the blockading squadron, however, in spite of the optimistic reports sent out by its commander Captain W. V. E. Jacobs. Nineteen men of the coast guard service are now in jail because they were empted by bride from the enemy yielded, and were caught. Several other boatloads of men sent out to bring in bootleggers also were tempted, yielded, but to date have not been caught. It is hoped that the well-known spirit of the force will over-come the handicap created by the defection of these weaker brethren, but strict surveillance has been commanded in order...
...York, N. Y., March 22.--The polo team was eliminated from the intercollegiate polo tournament when defeated by Yale in a game played here on Saturday night at the Squadron A Armory...
...University polo team will play Yale tonight in New York at the Squadron A Armory in the preliminary round of the intercollegiate indoor polo tournament. Only two other colleges, West Point and Pennsylvania Military College, are represented. These teams will play tonight in Brooklyn...
Meanwhile the Army band passed in its gray uniforms with blue and white facings. There followed cavalry, infantry, a machine gun detachment, engineers, an Army Air squadron, three batteries of artillery, 32 tanks, mobile repair shops, 60 quartermaster trucks, a regiment of marines, a regiment of sailors, every group with a band in bright uniform. Last in line were the Governors of the states...