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...sailors' story" is fact; the battleship Texas was ashore here from Sept. 28 to Oct. 1, 1917, according to official records. ALBERT E. WING...
...Chosen for the return trip because of her speed, the Memphis is less steady at sea than the battleship Texas, which took the President to Havana. While the Memphis rushed homewards at 25 knots, the Texas plowed along behind more slowly but on a more even keel...
Deposited appropriately by a battleship on Cuban soil while Marines were planning a new bombing attack on Niearaguan villages. President Coolidge eloquently clouded the issue in the speech of optimistic generalities in which he assured a doubtful world that the interests of this country are anything but imperialistic. But if the United States treatment of South America where the investments of her citizens exceed the total of those placed in Europe is not imperialistic. It is a form of aggressive and armed commercialism. Foreign nations, forbidden themselves to interfere, have sneered at what they choose to call a hypocritical, forceful...
...executive offices and sometimes substituted in the classroom, with civil service clerks) and unpatriotism. Evidence adduced to prove the latter charge: "He refused to recommend to the School Board that the school children be permitted to donate small amounts of money for the purpose of reconditioning-the famous American battleship Old Ironsides. . . . He recommended history text books which contained pro-British propaganda and which omitted the name and exploits of many foreign and native-born heroes of the American Revolutionary War." There were other charges-insolence, poisoning the minds of U. S. children against the government...
...brass bands played "Dixie" and a song that started, "Spain, Spain, Spain, you ought to be ashamed. . . ." People sang the words and waved their caps; the whole country was talking about a terrible thing that had happened. What they knew about the story was this: A big U. S. battleship, the Maine, had rested in the harbor of Havana and there, one soft evening, when the captain was on shore, a greasy Spaniard had externally applied explosives, which had blown a hole through her bottom and had driven her keel upward through her deck. Most of the sailors...