Word: alva
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within the secretive confines of the Navy Department in Washington, a small war went on last year. Shy but stubborn Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, who inherited the experimental instinct from his great father, Thomas Alva Edison, wanted the Navy to try out small, speedy, motor torpedo boats and submarine chasers. Motored "mosquito boats"* and subchasers did perilous and effective duty along European coasts during War I, afterward were further developed by the British and Italians. Grey, stubborn Admiral William Daniel Leahy, who until last June was Chief of Naval Operations, stuck by his principle that the Navy...
Like bird-dogs on point, newshawks and lobbyists clustered around a saloon-like swinging door in the U. S. Capitol one sticky morning last week. Behind that door sat bald-domed "Little Alva" Adams and the Senate deficiency appropriations subcommittee. Through it filed Government chiefs, great and small, to make their last pleas for money...
...names of 23 U. S. warboats new-built and building. Battleships: Iowa and New Jersey. Cruisers: Cleveland and Columbia. Seaplane tenders: Casco and Mackinac. Submarines: Marlin, Grayling, Grenadier, Gudgeon, Mackerel, Gar, Grampus, Grayback. Repair ship: Vulcan. Destroyers (for Navy heroes): Woolsey, Ludlow, Wilkes, Nicholson, Ericsson, Ingraham, Edison (for Thomas Alva, the Acting Secretary's father), Swanson (for his predecessor...
...that his State's people "would never be satisfied with a Presidential candidate except Mr. Roosevelt or someone in harmony with his views," Colorado's ex-Governor Sweet declared his conviction that Mr. Roosevelt could be renominated, despite opposition by conservatives like his State's Senator Alva Adams...
Union Pacific (Paramount) is constructed, from sandbox to coupling pins, of cinematic materials as standard as those that went into the railroad it celebrates. Its most dramatic sequence is a new version of Thomas Alva Edison's 1903 production, The Great Train Robbery, the first story-telling picture ever made. Union Pacific also has: an Indian massacre; a pursuit on horseback; a race across a burning bridge; an old-fashioned triangle plot of sacrifice and misunderstanding. But when, like its subject, it triumphantly ends its journey at Utah's Promontory Point, it has carried a full payload...