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...result of the Army's creation of the Remount Service, which breeds good horses for possible military use. In 1914 French and British buyers took the best of the Western horses. Three years later the U. S. Government could not find enough first-class saddle horses to equip a single cavalry division (4,000 horses). Previously Western horses had deteriorated through large purchases by the British for the Boer War and because of an admixture of homesteaders' draught horses with the sturdier stock taken West by pioneers. All Western horses contain some of the blood of the wild...
...Geneva the Disarmament Conference remained deadlocked upon Premier Tardieu's plan to equip the League of Nations with an international police force- a plan anathema to President Hoover, as everyone knows. Therefore knowing Swiss pulled long faces, called Delegate Stimson "the American Undertaker come to bury the Disarmament Conference." But Chief U.S. Delegate Hugh Gibson had presented to the Conference last week a spirited rehash of the "real disarmament" which President Hoover would like to see achieved...
...proposal to limit the "problems" to the locality of the particular college. In advocating what amounts to a vocational school for local politicians, the suggestions overlooks not only the essential purpose of a University but one of the most significant lessons of the present crisis. Universities should equip men with a foundation for future study and a broad perspective on which to base their thought on important questions. Never has the world felt a greater need for men with such training. In allowing one of its conclusions to be so highly colored by immediate reactions to a temporary exigency...
...Pondered a proposal to equip all Senators with lapel microphones to broadcast Senate sessions...
...necessary to bring the fleet to its maximum strength. It appropriated no money; it detailed no building program; it set no time limits. If enacted, however, it would permit an expenditure of close to $1,000,000,000 to complete all vessels now building, modernize all capital ships, equip all carriers with aircraft, replace all overage craft and add enough new tonnage to make the U. S. fleet second to none. Its prime purpose was to establish in U. S. law a naval building policy which President Hoover, for reasons of economy, has been reluctant to pursue. Senator Hale made...