Word: yorktown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens." From Miami, where Legion politicians had already lined up a third of the organization in a Bonus bloc, National Commander Edward A. Hayes cracked back: "I cannot agree." Mrs. Roosevelt flew right back to Washington as soon as the ceremonies were over. The President & friends drove to Yorktown, boarded the Sequoia for a weekend cruise up Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac...
...warships to be built in private yards, payment for which will come out of the $238,000,000 public works fund allocated to the Navy (TIME, Aug. 14). He also named some of the new craft as follows: Vincennes (heavy cruiser), Brooklyn, Savannah, Nashville, Philadelphia (light cruisers), Yorktown, Enterprise (aircraft carriers), Porpoise, Pike, Shark, Tarpon (sub-marines...
...given by President Thomas Jefferson.* In 1809, at President John Madison's inaugural ball, the Marine Band played a special "Madison's March." Since then it has played a new march at every inaugural. The Marine Band was General La Fayette's bodyguard when he visited Yorktown and Mount Vernon in 1824. Andrew Jackson had the band in to play for the first Easter Egg Rolling and White House Children's Party. Abraham Lincoln asked the band to Gettysburg when he made his famed address; in his time it was by Act of Congress expanded...
...steam engine, the airplane, the incandescent lamp, the wireless telephone and the battleship? . . . We should strive to identify the qualities in him that made our revolution a success and our Nation great. Those were the qualities that marked Washington out for immortality . . . Lexington . . . Concord . . . Bunker Hill . . . Valley Forge . . . Yorktown...
...World Turned Upside Down" was played by the bands of the allied armies when Cornwall is surrendered at Yorktown. Thomas Paine, who composed the ballad "Liberty Tree" was also the author of "Common Sense" and "The Rights of Man". "The Battle of the Kegs", written by Francis Hopkinson, signer of the Declaration of Independence, provided a hilarious interlude for the distressing winter at Valley Forge...