Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Navy men, considering themselves guardians of all this wealth, not to mention the 400 billions heaped up in the U. S., think that a couple of hundred millions per annum for five years is a very modest sum for them to ask for new equipment. Walter Bruce Howe, ardent president of the Navy League, exclaims: "The price of one picture show from every American each year, in addition to the present Naval budget, would provide the difference nicely...
...Stick." The Navy's chief limitation is that it cannot be taught tact as well as tactics. Go to the Navy Department and ask to be shown how the Navy's "absolute needs" are calculable in terms of U. S. geography, population or even the noncompetitive central fact of our having 18 capital ships. The first answer the Navy blurts out is, "Well, look at all the naval bases England has scattered over the globe! President Coolidge, more than tactful, styles the "Big Navy" program as "an orderly construction procedure-nothing more. ... No thought ... of competition...
...last the day of women has come in public affairs! No more shall newspaper editors and politicians spend months debating what course a man will follow; the thing to do is ask his wife. For it has just come to light that Mrs. Coolidge, five weeks before the famous "choose" message, embroidered into a White House coverlet the dates 1923-1929 in token of her stay there, thus predicting by her infallible womanly intuition what the mere men of the country did not accept as true for many months after. If only every candidate for office were married, the need...
...Stewart was soothed again. The hearing neared its close, with the Continental phase of the Oil Scandals as obscure as ever. But boyish Senator Nye, chairman of the Public Lands Committee, had the temerity to ask once more...
...inquisitors regretted it exceedingly, too. They had to ask Col. Stewart to take the stand again next day. Again he professed ignorance and unconcern as to how Sinclair and his associates* of the Continental Trading Co. "rigged the deal...