Word: limitates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge favored the authorization of the new cruisers, but objected to the three-year "time-limit" for construction. His objections, he said, were budgetary. He wanted the President to be allowed discretion in executing the program, dependent upon the condition of the Treasury. To persuade Congress to drop the time-limit, The last week offered to recommend a special preliminary cruiser-building appropriation so soon as the bill should be passed...
According to Senate debaters, the time-limit would mean ships of steel; its removal, ships of paper. Complaint was made that if the three-year provision were dropped the new fleet would remain at the blue-print stage indefinitely. To bolster this argument it was recalled that in 1924 Congress authorized eight cruisers, none of which is yet completed, due to slow White House action...
President-Elect Hoover was involved last week in the time-limit phase of the cruiser question. Chairman Fred Britten (Ill.) of the House Naval Affairs Committee, biggest of the big-navy group, issued a statement, presumably with intent to influence the Senate's action on the time-limit provision...
...sure the time limit would be pleasing to Mr. Hoover...
...There exists the fallacy that we have started a race in building 10,000 ton cruisers. It is tolerably plain that we have started a race in building. It is tolerably plain that the limit [10,000 tons] was put too high for real economy. Other countries set about designing and authorizing the building of a number of these large cruisers, with the result that instead of the maximum [in size] they become standard. We naturally had to do the same thing. But it was not until 1924, two or three years after the Washington Conference, that any of these...