Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...London the President dispatched brilliant Rear Admiral Robert L. Ghormley, who until recently was Assistant Chief of Naval Operations in charge of war plans. Rear Admiral Ghormley's talents fit him to watch British naval warfare, post the President on developments which affect U. S. naval strategy...
...Organized an Aviation Division, with 30 pilots for a starter, including Rear Admiral Byrd, Bernt Balchen. Clyde Pangborn, Roscoe Turner, to publicize the Committee with a nationwide air tour...
...Johnson, who pointed out that his old commanding officer and No. 1 hero among U. S. military men was a great general, but no expert on the sea. Last week two retired sea dogs, under the White Committee's auspices, added their voices to General Pershing's: Rear Admiral Harry Yarnell, Commander in Chief of the Asiatic Fleet from 1936 until he reached the retirement age of 64 last year, and Admiral William Standley, Chief of Naval Operations from 1933 to 1937. Said Admiral Yarnell at a White Committee rally at Boston: "If Britain loses...
...that shed old letters, mementos, galleys, gifts, ideas, books and last year's calendars like some queer surrealistic fruit tree ready to drop its harvest. His thoughts were gloomy, but no trace of gloom showed on his round cherubic features which, he says, make him look like a rear view of Cupid and prevent his being taken as a serious thinker. He went home for the dinner that in Emporia comes at noon. After dinner he stretched out on his double mahogany bed that stands beneath three ivy-shaded windows, put two pillows under his head, and slept...
...Died. Rear Admiral David Watson Taylor, 76, chief of construction for the Navy during World War I, largely responsible for the design and completion of more than 1,000 vessels, famed as a naval innovator; in Washington. In 1931 he was awarded the John Fritz medal, top honor of the engineering profession...