Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roving the seas, three battle cruisers (San Francisco, Tuscaloosa, and Quincy) steamed southward to round Cape Horn and the South Americas, where Franklin Roosevelt proposes if need be to meet "force with force." Laid up for treatment, the U.S.S. West Virginia was anchored off Brooklyn Navy Yard, where naval mechanics replaced a 16-inch gun which cracked during maneuvers in the Caribbean last month. Beautifully at rest, the U.S.S. Tennessee rode the Hudson, to be admired by Manhattan gawpers. But it was at Hampton Roads, Va. that the greatest majesty of the Fleet was seen. There battleships, cruisers, destroyers, auxiliaries...
...last week Virginia's Governor James H. Price, Norfolk's Mayor John A. Gurkin, with assorted State and local dignitaries, boarded the flagship California to welcome the U. S. Fleet to Virginia waters. Then they went ashore for a big civic luncheon. In mid-meal came a message from Washington. The officials gaped at their honor guest, Admiral Edward C. ("Old Man") Kalbfus. There was no longer much point in greeting the Fleet. Franklin Roosevelt (through Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus Swanson) had ordered most of it back to the Pacific...
...Huskies and Crusaders both have several good men, but will probably be outclassed by the Crimson. Dartmouth, despite its poor showing in the Quad meet, will be a tougher nut to crack; the Big Green has already won two outdoor meets with Peen and Virginia, and has a decided edge over Harvard in outdoor experience...
...Rock, Next month's Scribner's will carry a 15,000-word Wolfe novelette, The Party at Jack's. This month's American Mercury has Wolfe's Portrait of a Literary Critic, a mock tribute to a corkscrewy reviewer. Next issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review will carry Wolfe's A Western Journey, diary of his trip to the Northwest last summer, taken from pencil notes written at night, or scribbled in an automobile going 60 m.p.h. Current issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review carries a memoir of Thomas Wolfe by Henry T. Volkening...
Floyd Stahl's charges got off to a good start Monday against the Naval Training Station at Norfolk, Virginia, crushing them to the tune of a 15-2 score. Slim Curtiss, Charlie Brackett and Jack Schwede shared the pitching assignment, with Curtiss carrying off top honors. Reino Grondahl smashed out a three-bagger and two singles in six trips to the plate. Bill Tully hit Harvard's lone home run of the series...