Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parting shot at the Navy was an offer to show in an actual test what airplanes could do. He suggested that the battleship North Dakota be subjected to trial. (She must soon be used for target practice since she is outside the Disarmament Treaty quota.) He suggested that the Navy equip her with a radio control...
...were attacking the North Dakota with heavy bombs, I am certain we could make 70% of hits...
...report stated that, within the 18 months allotted for carrying out the terms of the treaty, the U. S. had scrapped and sold the following completed or partially completed battleships and cruisers: Kansas, Minnesota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Michigan, Indiana, Delaware, Maine, Missouri, Nebraska, Georgia, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Louisiana, Vermont, New. Hampshire, Montana, North Carolina, lowa, Massachusetts, Constitution, United States, Constellation, Ranger. These ships had cost $197,418,620; for the scrap, the Government received...
Rejected by one or both Houses in 13 states: Georgia, North Carolina, Louisiana, South Carolina, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio, Delaware, Wyoming, Washington and rejected by advisory referendum in Massachusetts...
...members left to enter the Army. The late Gus Gardner of Massachusetts left in May or June, and died in camp the following January. I was the next to leave - in July, 1917. Then followed La Guardia, who left in September and, after that, Congressman Royal Johnson of South Dakota who left in November. Of the four, Gardner lost his life, and the other three were wounded in action. I arn afraid your article leaves the inference that La Guardia was elected to Congress solely because of having capitalized his War record, and the fact is that he left Congress...