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Last week Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus Swanson,71-year-old Virginian, issued his first policy sheet for the U. S. Navy under Democratic rule. The last general statement of naval policy was made Aug. 4, 1931 by Secretary Adams but soon became a dead letter because of President Hoover's indifference toward the Navy. Now the Navy has a great & good friend in the White House-a fact which gave the Swanson Policy Sheet a new ring of determination, sent a thrill of hope and elation throughout the service. Like his predecessor, Secretary Swanson promised: "To create...
...Because its beer law expires Sept. 1, the legislature will reassemble Aug. 29 to make it permanent...
...Most famed utterance of any German statesman in the 20th Century was "Necessity knows no law" by Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg to the Reichstag, Aug...
Other volumes (in order) : The Tale of Genji, The Sacred Tree, The Wreath of Cloud, Blue Trousers, The Lady of the Boat (TIME, Aug...
...Government and other marketable securities," which Allied Chemical & Dye put down in a lump sum among "current" assets on its balance sheet, the largest part consisted of the company's own stock. Forthwith the Exchange ordered Allied stock be stricken from trading on Aug. 23, if in the meantime Allied did not give its stockholders more & better information. A grave defeat was this for Orlando Franklin Weber, autocrat of Allied, who for a full year had urbanely held the Exchange's Listing Committee at arm's length. To make matters worse a committee of his own stockholders...