Word: tr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France wants a pact with Spain, but not with "gangster Franco ... the ally of Hitler and the enemy of France." (In the diplomatic gallery Spanish Envoy José de Sangroniz listened stonily. From the Assembly came the day's noisiest cheers, shouts: "Très bien! Très bien...
...Salts. The middle-aged men and able-bodied gaffers who give their time to the TR are salty as mackerels. Among them: Apprentice Seamen Lewis O. Barrows, ex-Governor of Maine; Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pop Concerts. Faithful members of Flotilla 415 of Rockport, Mass. are septuagenarians Coxswain Dan Woodbury, ex-marine architect, Carl Green, ex-fisherman...
...outstanding flotilla is the one organized by Kenneth S. Magoon, ex-commodore of the Cottage Park Yacht Club, now a TR lieutenant (j.g.). Lieut. Magoon's flotilla has grown from 100 to 600 volunteers. Most of Magoon's flotilla patrol the Massachusetts beaches, stepping thoughtfully around lovers, eyes beamed seaward for flares, boats in distress, enemy submarines. Chunky, energetic Lieut. Magoon resents the intrusion of his State St. importing business on the long hours he devotes to the TR...
Good Deeds. Outside the routine work of helping to run the Coast's harbor services, TR's deeds have been numerous, if not publicized. Alfred Miller, refrigerator serviceman, saw smoke trailing from a vent on a munitions ship. Sparks in a pile of sawdust had started a fire. In time's nick Miller sounded an alarm, got credit for preventing the kind of catastrophe which devastated Halifax when a munitions ship blew up in the harbor...
...TR's casualties have been few. Boatswain's Mate Henry Trongone, manufacturer of women's coats, fell overboard one day but was quickly fished out. Mr. Trongone and the contents of his pockets, $1,200 in bills, were spread out in the galley...