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...Received from the Naval Affairs Committee a bill from Maine's Hale to build the U. S. fleet up to maximum, treaty strength...
...bill that went to the Senate was sponsored by Maine's Senator Frederick Hale, chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee and persistent advocate of a full-sized Navy. In 200 words it gave blanket authority for whatever naval construction was 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...
Grant's Secretary of the Interior (1875-77). Chandler's dour effigy now stands in the Capitol's Statuary Hall. The Hales inherited a large slice of the Chandler fortune, made in dry goods in Detroit. Scion of two such potent and distinguished families, young "Freddie" Hale was carefully schooled (Lawrenceville, Groton. Harvard) and steered into the Law as a stepping stone to politics. His father's name and fame helped him to get elected to the Maine House of Representatives for one term (1904). In 1916 he was elected to the U. S. Senate where...
...much care on the hard, staccato beginnings of the rhapsody, the smart, shifting jazz rhythms which followed. People were enthusiastic about the smooth, melodic middle theme which the Koussevitzky strings played superbly but Bostonians never really accept any new music without consulting one of two critical oracles, aged Philip Hale of the Boston Herald or H. T. ("Hell-to-Pay") Parker of the Transcript. Gnomelike Critic Parker thought "this Second Rhapsody seemed tempered and in degree de-natured by reflection and manipulation. It sounded over-often from the study-table and the piano-rack." Said Critic Hale: "The music...
Passing his examinations with a grade of 84.80, William Hale Thompson, one-time Mayor of Chicago, obtained a Federal license to pilot any freshwater yacht up to 500 tons gross...