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Captain Adolphus Watson, Commander-in-Chief of the Cruiser Squadron of the Pacific Battle Fleet of the United States Navy, will arrive in Cambridge today to replace Captain Wygant who has been instructing in the most advanced Naval Science course...
...voted against: World Court (1926), 15-cruiser building bill (1928), tariff...
...sidelines at Shanghai sat U. S. Vice Admiral Montgomery Taylor aboard his flagship the battle cruiser Houston. At Geneva the U. S. ''observer" was U. S. Minister to Switzerland Hugh Wilson. Three times during a single League Assembly sitting tall, sad-eyed Sir John Simon walked over to Observer Wilson and publicly whispered in his ear. This British courtesy and the general line of Sir John's efforts so pleased Mr. Stimson that next day he told Washington correspondents that now "all nations can speak with the same voice." A spokesman for Observer Wilson said that he was "very grateful...
...Marlborough, the Emperor of India and the Benbow (all antiquated battleships) will be scrapped at once, announced the Admiralty. On the scrapheap also goes the battle cruiser Tiger...
...stay by looking for apartments in town. Reporters interviewed Countess Ciano, better known as Edda Mussolini, wife of the Italian Consul General. She, busy feeding Il Duce's grandson, complained that the curfew law interfered with her social engagements. In Rome her father despatched Admiral Domenico Cavagnari with a cruiser and a destroyer to help protect her and other Italians...