Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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If my memory serves me, Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty (no kin, unfortunately) had as his flagship the Lion and was leading five battle cruisers just before the battle of Jutland, May 1916. At that time the Lion was torpedoed and put out of commission, and Admiral Beatty transferred his...
Night before he spoke his mind, the U. S. Maritime Commission in Washington announced its conditional approval of the transfer of eight ships of the United States Lines to the flag of the Republic of Panama. Banned from belligerent ports, banned from their regular North Atlantic runs because of the...
Said the Secretary, disagreeing with his chief: when the Maritime Commission first approached him, he felt that no question of foreign policy was involved. Then he realized he had spoken hastily, believed all officials should join in preserving the absolute integrity of the Neutrality Act, advised the Commission that there...
Last week the 45,000,000 citizens of Brazil celebrated two anniversaries-their 50th as a Republic, their second as a dictatorship. In honor of the occasion, plump Dictator-President Getulio Vargas proclaimed a paternal decree setting up a national commission for the protection of parents with many children.*
First Lieutenant Billow's testimony (he also said no British warship had, to his knowledge, been sunk by a Nazi bombing plane) was the more impressive when corroborated by no less a warrior than First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. For four weeks an Admiralty commission had chewed...