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Lieutenant Commander Glutting came to Harvard in the Spring of 1930, and has had charge of instruction in Gunnery. Formerly he was Gunnery officer on the battleship Florida, and between 1924 and 1926 was naval aide to President Coolidge and was attached to the Presidential yacht Mayflower. He commanded the submarine R-4 after the War, and later was given command of one of the S-type submarines...
...Debated the $327.000.000 Naval appropriation bill, after refusing to decrease the number of Navy bands or increase the $14,000,000 allowed for battleship modernization...
...their best shots, newsreels are dependent upon accidentally suitable events, like the Lindbergh kidnapping. Otherwise they are too often forced to use cliches like battleship launchings, cherry-blossom time in Japan, baby parades, Mussolini, sporting events and animals that can dance or count. A new type of newsreel called Lotus Sobol's Newsreel Scoops made its appearance last week. It showed what in newssheets would be feature stories- shots of Harry K. Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit as they looked when Harry K. Thaw shot Stanford White and as they look at present; various ladies who have been friends with...
...willingness of the American Government to surrender its then com- manding lead in battleship construction and to leave its positions without further fortification was predicated upon, among other things, the self-denying covenants contained in the Nine-Power Treaty . . . against military aggrandizement at the expense of China. One cannot discuss the possibility of modifying or abrogating the provisions of the Nine-Power Treaty without considering at the same time the other promises upon which they were really de-pendent." In these carefully guarded words lay Secretary Stimson's most potent threat against Japan and its Shanghai gesture...
...unique and courageous act of President Hoover's close friend Hugh Gibson last week was to take his stand as chief of the only delegation at Geneva opposed to abolition of the battleship. All the other 56 nations without exception agreed that the battleship is a purely offensive weapon and should be abolished...