Word: billingsley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy men last week adopted a new fashion. To Commander Calvin H. Cobb of the destroyer Billingsley, bound out of St. Petersburg, Fla., for Philadelphia, came a radio from the police that a St. Petersburg girl was believed to have been smuggled aboard the Billingsley; please to make a search. Indignant, Commander Cobb searched-and found 15-year-old Cynthia Alberta Pool. She said she had been persuaded to go by a seaman named Kramer; that a married woman of St. Petersburg had planned to go too but was prevented by her husband, who appeared on the dock...
Admiral Thomas P. Magruder is on board the flagship Richmond off Reykjavik in constant touch with the fliers; the torpedo boat destroyers Billingsley and Reid are stationed along the southern waters of Greenland; the cruiser Richmond completes the chain, being stationed as near to Angmagsalik as the ice permits. Planes from the Richmond flew to the new base and created a great sensation with the Eskimos, who had never seen such giant birds before. An Iceland historian has unearthed an old prophecy which states that giant birds will cross to Greenland before the month of August is out. This favorable...
...foreigners. The U. S. Government, which a fortnight ago severed diplomatic relations (TIME, Feb. 25), announced that Rear Admiral Dayton had landed 35 marines from the U. S. S. Denver to guard the Consulate and protect American lives and property. Later, it was announced that the U. S. Destroyer Billingsley had been sent to Honduran waters to Puerto Cortes, where American life was said to be endangered, as Admiral Dayton thought it inadvisable to withdraw the Denver from La Ceiba...