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...voted for: Tax reduction (1924, 1926, 1928, 1929), Farm Relief (1929), the Tariff (1922, 1929), the Navy's 15-Cruiser bill (1929), Reapportionment (1929), Immigration Restriction (1923). He voted against: The Soldier Bonus (1924), the 18th Amendment (1918), the Volstead Act (1919), the Jones ("Five & Ten") Law (1929), Farm Relief (1927, 1928), Boulder...
...broadsides of professional disapproval against the treaty. In 15 days 23 high naval officers appeared to testify at the call of Senator Johnson and 21 of them could find nothing but fault. In chorus they complained that under the treaty the U. S. would: 1) have to build a cruiser fleet on specifications dictated by Britain; 2) have less than a sporting chance with 6-in. gun cruisers instead of 8-in; 3) be at a serious disadvantage against Japan in defending far Pacific possessions. Such words as "wicked," "detrimental," "unjust," "restrictive," "a mistake," "inferiority" poured forth volubly from naval...
...first squeamish and had to sit down, then frankly seasick and had to lie prostrate below while the Fleet roared salutes for his momentarily unmanned office. President Hoover stood under the eight-inch guns of the Salt Lake City-10,000 tons, last crisp word in U. S. cruisers-and peered closely through binoculars at the trim masses of war machinery which soon came plowing past. From the light-cruiser division (eight strong, four abreast, led by the Detroit), then from the destroyer divisions (26 strong, four abreast, led by the cruiser Concord), then from the dreadnaughts (eleven strong...
...Journeying to Newport News, Va., by a special overnight train, President Hoover boarded the cruiser Salt Lake City to review the U. S. fleet, for the first time in his Administration...
...boats, has another 22,000 tons under construction, and with the 29,000 tons announced last week will soon have a brand new fighting contingent of 83,000 tons. What this weight in war boats means may be roughly gauged from the fact that the U. S. large-cruiser fleet today amounts to 80,000 tons, of which only 20,000 tons are in commission. Of course the U. S. complement of other war boats makes the U. S, Navy superior to the Italian, though as yet by no means equal to the British...