Word: anacostia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days after the naval review, he visited Bolling Field with Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, inspected every type of Army plane there stationed and also the latest Naval equipment at nearby Anacostia. From his car the President watched mechanics demonstrate the marvels of folding wings, retractable pontoons...
...Navy Day. Last week Franklin Roosevelt sent a wreath to be placed on Theodore Roosevelt's grave at Oyster Bay, L. I. Celebrations were held at Navy stations over the U. S. In the rain at Washington Navy Yard a party of Marines landed from Anacostia, staged a smoky mock battle with a party of sailors dressed in straw sombreros and checkered shirts to suggest Central American Insurrectos. At Philadelphia Navy Yard visitors clambered over Admiral Dewey's old, grey flagship, the Olympia. Preparedness messages were delivered on Boston Common by James Roosevelt, at the Navy Department...
Radio Engineer U. S. Naval Air Station Anacostia...
...heart failure. The Potomac, two miles wide in places and looking from the air like a huge, clay-colored lake, rolled on to flood seven valley towns. Four spans of the old vehicular bridge at Harper's Ferry, entrance to the Shenandoah Valley, were swept away. At Anacostia the Navy got 35 planes off to Hampton Roads before the flying field went under. In Washington 1,500 WPA workers threw up a 19-ft. dike of earth, stone and sandbags to protect the Washington Monument and new Government buildings near the river. Residents of outlying Georgetown took to rowboats...
Born in the Anacostia section of Washington, Frederick Patterson was the last of four children. His father died when he was a few months old, his mother less than two years later. His sister Wilhelmina took him with her when she went to teach at Prairie View College, Tex. There, young "Pat" spent his time tagging after the football and baseball teams, getting his ears boxed for being a nuisance. Because he was a professor's brother, he could cut classes at will. When he studied, he studied hard, at agriculture and veterinary surgery. Later at Iowa State College...