Word: arming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe big warships are absolutely useless except for fishing schooners.? I believe a little destroyer is worth more today than a big battleship, and a battleship is not worth much. The submarines are the most efficient arm of the Navy left. Airplanes and submarines together can put out of action all the big ships ever produced...
...East Room of the White House shimmered and twinkled with bright uniforms, emblems, medals, pomade. Two thousand were present. When it was over, Mrs. Coolidge leaned on the arm of the President, said farewell to scores of the guests. Thus, with a state reception in honor of the Army & Navy, ended the social program of the Coolidge administration...
...cause of the millions of dollars it was re funding to income-tax payers, private and corporate. Senator McKellar had finally introduced a bill which would automatically put all refunds under the immediate control of the Board of Tax Appeals, which is a quasi-judicial and not an executive arm of government. This was as much as to say that Mr. Mellon's Bureau of Internal Revenue could not be trusted. Nothing could be more insulting to a man whose greatest pride is his integrity and the integrity of those under...
Abraham Lincoln rode up just after dawn, his legs dangling against his horse's flanks. He dismounted, stood back to back with James Shields. Both had muskets. They walked 20 paces, turned toward each other and took aim. Shields fired first, but his arm quivered. Lincoln remained upright, drawing a meticulous bead. Then his gun startled the silent morning...
...picture in a photographer's showcase in Budapest. The people she worked for didn't want her to meet Goldwyn and kept her out of his way. He was about to get on a train when her manager ran up, seized the magnate's arm, urged him back to where the actress, her beautiful face expressing suspense, was standing in the drafty waiting-room. In Hollywood, Miss Banky played first with Ronald Colman, then with Rudolph Valentino, then again with Colman, always with Colman so that her "public" was shocked and even lessened when, a year...