Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been that Britain dictated the kind and number of cruisers the U. S. might have. Provocative to anti's and disturbing to the Treaty's friends was a load of British praise which fell last week upon Admiral William Veazie Pratt, commander-in-chief of the U. S. fleet, as one of the few U. S. Navy men to support the pact. In London the Naval & Military Record, semi-official organ of the British Admiralty, declared...
...professional disapproval against the treaty. In 15 days 23 high naval officers appeared to testify at the call of Senator Johnson and 21 of them could find nothing but fault. In chorus they complained that under the treaty the U. S. would: 1) have to build a cruiser fleet on specifications dictated by Britain; 2) have less than a sporting chance with 6-in. gun cruisers instead of 8-in; 3) be at a serious disadvantage against Japan in defending far Pacific possessions. Such words as "wicked," "detrimental," "unjust," "restrictive," "a mistake," "inferiority" poured forth volubly from naval witnesses against...
Other business friends are General Motors, DuPont de Nemours, International Harvester, John Deere Co., Caterpillar Tractor, Radio Corp. and the U. S. Shipping Board, which sold the Reds a fleet of 25 cargo steamers (TIME, Jan. 27). Banks which sent business-getters to Moscow last year include National City. Chase National, Equitable Trust...
True to the Navy (Paramount). Clara Bow was surrounded by sailors once before, in a silent picture (The Fleet's In), and in several others she has begun her love-making from behind a store counter. True to the Navy conforms to the Bow formula: a love-affair, a misunderstanding, a reunion. The formula depends for its success on quick sequences and energetic physical activity; usually makes fair entertainment; but True to the Navy drags. The dialog is the sort in which effects are concentrated in the word "Yeah" and while Bow gives a good performance Frederic March, who plays...
...Fleet Street (and 1,800 ousted employes) mourned the Chronicle which, since 1877, had been a standard bearer of Liberalism. Lloyd George controlled it from 1918 to 1926, sold his holdings for approximately...