Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...maximum altitude was 38,559 ft., reached by Lieut. C. C. Champion in 1927. Capt. H. C. Gray of the U. S. Air Service was credited with a, balloon altitude of 44,000 in 1927, but this figure cannot be verified as Capt. Gray was killed during the flight...
...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...
...destroying goodwill? "The most important right is the right of use, for without use, property may be valueless," said Col. James Augustan Emery, counsel for the National Association of Manufacturers. "This bill would say to industry: 'You can protect your plants and your physical property, but you cannot protect the use thereof...
...cannot feel as we do. . . . Since the beginning of time men with the best intentions have been writing laws for our good. Since the beginning of time brave and valiant women have been abolishing these same laws. . . ." ¶ Throughout the week Chief U. S. Delegate Charles Evans Hughes labored manfully in subcommittee to prevent the drafting into a code of Pan-American International Law of any clause which would tend to prevent the U. S. from intervening in Latin American countries...
...Though Stefan Raditch is still the strongest politician among the potent Croats, he fails to evolve a majority which will support him and confesses that he cannot form a cabinet...