Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began with a meeting of the Navy League's executive committee to ponder its president's charge that President Hoover was "restricting, reducing and starving" the U. S. fleet, subordinating its strength to foreign powers, nullifying authorized construction programs with economy. After due deliberation the committee voted 7-to-i in support of Mr. Gardiner, affirming "its faith in the statement issued." Only dissenter was Demo-crat Henry Breckinridge, onetime Assistant Secretary of War, who took exception to Mr. Gardiner's "unseemly and unjustified language concerning the President of the United States." After posing for photographs the whole committee went...
...part of its auxiliary naval strength into small 6-in.-gun cruisers, as a "surrender to the British." When the London Treaty was ratified, he set up a clamor, as the Navy League's president, for speedy cruiser construction which would bring the U. S. fleet up to its authorized strength. A $767,000,000 Navy League building program was advanced. When President Hoover and Secretary Adams last month began to hack down the Navy's budget, Propagandist Gardiner cried out in pain and protest. The proposal by Italy's Dino Grandi for an all-round suspension of naval building...
...yield to them at Geneva in 1927" (i. e. big cruisers for small ones); 4) he refused to let the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in executive session see the full record of his negotiations on the London Treaty; 5) he promised the London Treaty would give the U. S. fleet "a chance to catch up" but failed to execute the catching-up construction; 6) he now favors a special one-year building holiday which would "yield the British and Japanese an average gain [in auxiliaries] of 17.5% over...
...fleet of six lines (Red Star, Atlantic Transport, Leyland, Baltimore Mail, U. S. Lines, American Merchant Lines) plying the main Atlantic route with weekly and bi-weekly sailings...
While the U. S. plans were maturing last week National Council of American Shipbuilders announced the U. S. Merchant fleet had declined 3,408,000 tons in the past decade, against increases of 731,000 tons for Great Britain, 3,537,000 for Germany, 685,000 for Italy, 921,000 for Japan and a small decrease of 86,000 for France...