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Freshman 150-pound: John R. Abbot, Jr., stroke; Androw Gaudielle, 7; Richard W. Swanson, 6; Paul Dana, 5; David T. Woodbury, 4; Oliver C. Biddle, 3; Anthony R. Wittemore, 2; Joseph S. Bigolow, bow; Richard G. Sisson, coxswain...
Again, chances for a major shift are in the air making for possibly a better boat, but, for the present the first crew lineup is as follows: Abbot, stroke; Gaudielle, seven; Swanson, six; Dana, five; Woodbury, four, Biddle, three; Smith, two; and Bigelow...
...great anomaly of 1939 was that in a year of unprecedented preparedness, Franklin Roosevelt chose to get along first with an ailing, aging Secretary of the Navy, and then with none at all after old Claude Swanson died last July. Assistant Secretary Charles Edison eased along as Acting Secretary, waited hopefully for the full title. The President let him wait, meantime let Washington gossips go to the lengths of rumoring that Republican Frank Knox would get the call in the interests of National Unity...
...built and building. Battleships: Iowa and New Jersey. Cruisers: Cleveland and Columbia. Seaplane tenders: Casco and Mackinac. Submarines: Marlin, Grayling, Grenadier, Gudgeon, Mackerel, Gar, Grampus, Grayback. Repair ship: Vulcan. Destroyers (for Navy heroes): Woolsey, Ludlow, Wilkes, Nicholson, Ericsson, Ingraham, Edison (for Thomas Alva, the Acting Secretary's father), Swanson (for his predecessor...
...mediocrity, but a shrewd, hard-working careerist was Claude Swanson. A son of Reconstruction, he worked and borrowed his way through college and University of Virginia's law school. He made money as a country lawyer, ran a country newspaper on the side. After twelve years in the U. S. House he was made Governor by the greatest of all Virginia political bosses, Senator Thomas Staples Martin, and then sent to the Senate for a career that lasted 22 years. He was one of Woodrow Wilson's main props in that chamber during the idealistic War years...