Word: utah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, last week, progressed a spelling-bee held on the Utah to vary the monotony of the usual deck-games. Among other contestants were: Mrs. Hoover, Ambassador Fletcher, John R. Mott, of Montclair, N. J., Commander Augustin Beauregard and Captain C. R. Train of the Utah. Eighteen words chosen from a list containing such orthographic stumpers as "vilified," "picknicking," "Philippine," "harassed," were given to the contestants. The winners were Mr. and Mrs. Hoover. Their record: 14 right, four wrong...
Quiet was the final stage of the Utah's homeward journey. Correspondents filed endless wirelesses, but no event of real importance disturbed the word-painted ship upon its word-painted ocean. Concerning Cabinet Farm Relief, Navy Bill, Kellogg Pact, Extra Session, the President-Elect maintained an unbroken silence...
Happy last week, were officers and men of the U. S. S. Utah as their ship rolled up from Rio, taking Herbert Hoover home. Capt. C. R. Train praised his men for having aroused not a single complaint during their shore leave in Brazil. Every man received a Christmas card autographed by President-Elect and Mrs. Hoover. Homecoming plans had been altered to make Washington, not Florida, the journey's end. Inasmuch as most of the Utah's personnel live closer to Hampton Roads than to Key West, the change meant that many of them could see wives...
Since the President-Elect obviously had not altered his homeward journey solely for the good of the Utah's sailors, Washington rumored and conjectured reasons for the alteration. Some said that Mr. Hoover was returning because of unexpected opposition to supposed members of his cabinet-Andrew Mellon in particular, or he was coming home to save the Kellogg-Briand Peace Treaty, or the trouble was that Hubert Work, Republican National Committee Chairman, had planned to take "patronage" (i.e., job issuing) out of Congressional hands and into the committee's and his own, and Mr. Hoover was going...
...relief and on the possibility of an extra session of Congress. Finally it was just possible that Mr. Hoover had found too much for him the task of making up a cabinet miles away from everybody. Maybe he was returning to Washington to get some suggestions. Remote aboard the Utah, Mr. Hoover offered no specific explanation...