Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debates of the proposed S-4 Investigating Commission scarcely transcended a private wrangel among four New York members, the Messrs. La Guardia, Griffin, O'Connor and Black. Bulky, blue jowled Major La Guardia, irregular Republican, had stolen a march on his Democratic col leagues by riding from New London, Conn., to Boston in the Submarine S-8. He had returned full of submarine lore, a loud champion of the Navy. "Was it because they treated him so nicely?" sneered Mr. Griffin, who rather fancies his own knowledge of submarines. "Are not the members of this caste...
...having to fight our way out of it. ... There is war in Nicaragua. It is not the war of the American people. ... If the President can send our Marines to wage war in Nicaragua the President can send an army and the navy to Great Britain and bombard London tomorrow. . . . etc., etc., etc." The House heard much oratory of this kind from excitable members. But nothing happened. Leaders of both parties were content to let the Administration work out its own salvation in policing Nicaragua. (See page...
Critic Silenced. Purple with cold, humble in spirit, Major Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York, one of the most vociferous orators in the U. S. House of Representatives, arrived at Boston. The Navy had given him a ride around Cape Cod from New London, Conn., in the S-8 which made a dive on the way. Major La Guardia, gallant aviator, had never before sailed in a submarine. Said he: "I tore up a speech I had all ready to deliver in Congress. I have found it seems much easier to navigate a submarine from the office building...
...More valuable collections of French art: museum collections of France; the Wallace Collection, London...
...slaves were freed, chiefly due to parlor agitation in London, by decree of the Legislative Council of Sierra Leone, an appointive body chairmaned by the British Governor and containing a minority of native chiefs. The anti-slavery decree allows no compensation to onetime slave owners, gives to each freed slave the right to claim a plot of the now too plenteous waste Government land...