Word: cruisers
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...Navy Department there were great buzzings about how President Coolidge would now, surely, see to it that Congress soon passes a cruiser-building bill, if only to show France and England that U. S. naval policy is independent, self-respecting...
...ominous, grey shape of the Spanish armored cruiser Principe Alfonso was silhouetted, last week, against the white buildings and brown or reddish towers of Stockholm, famed "Venice of the North...
Prince Nobuhito Takamatsu, 23, son of the late Emperor of Japan, Yoshihito, and brother of the present Emperor, Hirohito, arrived at Honolulu with dirty hands, dirty face, dirty clothes. He explained to the reception committee that he had been directing the coaling of the cruiser Yaktimo; asked that no photographs be taken. Then said he: "Honolulu may be called a place where the hands of peace, stretched by Japan and the U. S., grasp each other...
...obstacle that will be presented by militant objectors to the treaty's ratification is the cruiser-building bill which was lost in the last session of Congress. Responsible people have said that President Coolidge encouraged that bill's defeat. They have also said that the cruiser bill would be a good one to trade for the treaty's ratification. They have said further that President Coolidge foresaw this trading possibility. It will not be hard for President Coolidge to reencourage the cruiser bill. It was recommended by his Secretary of the Navy originally. The combination...
There was, however, a pause after the 21st boom, which divided the 40 detonations into a 21-gun salute for President William Thomas Cosgrave of the Irish Free State, and a 19-gun salute for U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, both on board the cruiser...