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From the mainmast of the new 10,000-ton cruiser Augusta flew the three-starred flag of Vice Admiral Frank H. Clark, the Scouting Force's commander. Astern steamed the Navy's newest and best men-o'-war-the heavy cruisers Salt Lake City, Chicago, Chester, Louisville, Northampton, Pensacola. Spread out in the van were 13 destroyers, their needle-like hulls wallowing in the long blue swell, their stacks belching inky smoke. The 33,000-ton aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga, each with fourscore planes on her flat back or in her cavernous belly, completed the procession...
...appointment is for a four-year tour of duty; Admiral Leigh is due to be retired for age Sept. 1, 1934. Likely candidates for Chief of Naval Operations: Admiral McNamee who this week defends the U. S. from the Black "enemy"; Vice Admiral William H. Standley, commander of the cruiser division of the Scouting Force; Vice Admiral David Foote Sellers, commander of the battleship division of the Battle Force...
Small Navy. The Pacific concentration incident to Fleet Problem No. 14 emptied other U. S. territorial waters of first-line fighting craft. The only battleships left on the Atlantic coast were the New Mexico, Idaho and Mississippi and they were at navy yards being modernized. The brand new cruiser Indianapolis was to have joined the fleet in the Pacific after its shakedown run. Last week she was ordered to Philadelphia Navy Yard for repairs when it was found that her 8-in. gun fire had jarred loose some of her plates...
...voted for: War (1917), 18th Amendment (1917), Volstead Act (1919), Jones Act (1929), Restrictive Immigration (1924), Soldier Bonus (1924), 15-Cruiser Bill (1929), Tax Reduction (1924, 1929), Reapportionment (1929), Farm Board (1929), Tariff (1930), Muscle Shoals (1931), Direct Jobless Relief (1932), Anti-injunction Labor Bill...
...voted for: Tariff (1922, 1930). Restrictive Immigration (1924), 15-cruiser bill (1928), Equalization Fee (1928), Boulder Dam (1928), Jones (Five & Ten) Act (1929), Reapportionment (1929), London Naval Treaty (1930), Debt Moratorium (1931), R. F. C. (1932), Labor's Anti-injunction bill (1932), billion-dollar naval building bill (1932), Sales Tax (1932), Revenue...