Word: extended
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...limiting capital ships of the U. S., Britain and Japan in the famed 5-5-3 ratio, should be modified or at least discussed at the present Parley. The U. S. Chief Delegate, Hugh Simpson Gibson, resisted the British pressure, maintaining that the Parley had been called to extend the 5-5-3 ratio to smaller ships, and not to modify it in any way. Suddenly the Japanese, previously supposed to favor the U. S. position, switched over to support British Chief Delegate the Rt. Hon. William Clive Bridgeman...
Contrarily the U. S. proposal was, in essence: "Keep the Washington Treaty intact. Extend its 5-5-3 principle to limit total navy strengths in that ratio...
...President Coolidge sent Smedley Darlington Butler to this key post of high responsibility? General Butler is a name which called up very recently no more than his comic tribulations as "Dry Tsar" of Philadelphia (TIME, Jan. 4, 1926). When the President would not extend his leave to go on with that job, General Butler resigned from the Marine Corps, only to lose immediately his post as "Dry Tsar." Nothing but the complacency of the Navy Department enabled General Butler to withdraw his resignation and scuttle back into the Corps. Yet now it is General Butler who commands...
...disputes between U. S. settlers in the northwest and the (British) Hudson's Bay Co. became critical when the Democrats made their campaign slogan "Fifty-four forty or fight"-meaning that Oregon should extend north to 54° 40' and include about half of what is now British Columbia and Alberta, provinces of the Dominion of Canada. The Democrats won the election, did not get the "fifty-four forty" line (it was settled at 49°) and also did not fight, having on their hands the Mexican...
...dinner marking the end of a most successful year was held last night by the Harvard Students Laundry at the Hotel Lenox. Speeches by the President, the Secretary, and the Treasurer emphasized the purpose of the organization namely to extend the opportunities for financial aid and business experience to a greater proportion of the student body and thereby extend and ferfect its service to the highest degree possible...