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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another Big Business errand last week took President Hoover to the great brown-panelled hall of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce across Lafayette Park from the White House. There under the bright flags of Columbus, DeSoto, Cortez and Cabot waited the 400 of U. S. industry-men like James Augustine Farrell (steel), Charles E. Bockus (coal), Matthew Scott Sloan (power), John G. Lonsdale (banking). Frank A. Seiberling (rubber), Roy Wilson Howard (newspapers), Frederick H. Ecker (insurance), Homer Lenoir Ferguson (shipbuilding). To a man they rose and cheered the President as he began to read them his speech...
...nation is now looking to you business men to get out of the huddle of 'conferences' and play ball. . . . A goodly number of citizens are inclined to be almost disrespectfully skeptical as to the value of committees and resolutions. . . . They are looking for action. . . . Our Christmas trees will have about the usual share of tinsel and electric lights and little crepe...
With many a meticulous detail he listed Navy needs: 1) more ships, especially cruisers; 2) more Navy pay; 3) more enlisted men; 4) adjustment of officers' promotion, distribution, retirement provisions...
...Last year the Navy's 308 ships were manned by 84,000 enlisted men, 8,905 officers. Of these 10,771 flew and tended 281 Navy aircraft. Said Secretary Adams: "The quality and efficiency of the enlisted personnel have never been better...
...Marine Corps average for the year was 17,983 enlisted men, 1,020 officers. Two thirds of this force was on expeditionary duty in Nicaragua, China, Haiti. Of Nicaraguan intervention Secretary Adams explained obliquely: "To carry out the agreement of the U. S. with the Conservative and Liberal forces of Nicaragua to guarantee a free and fair election it was necessary to increase the U. S. forces operating against bandits...