Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With nice diplomatic mummery the game was played last week of pretending that British Foreign Secretary "Uncle Arthur" Henderson was sending out from London invitations to the great naval powers. He received the Quaker-Scotch text from Washington, dutifully had four fair copies made, despatched them to Washington, Paris, Rome, Tokyo. A further bit of mummery was to delay publication of the U. S. State Department's "acceptance" until a few hours after Scot MacDonald left Washington (see above...
...third week of January next, bids them come prepared to discuss the limitations of all types of surface war boats, the abolition of the submarine. Japan immediately signified acceptance, though her formal reply to "Uncle Arthur" was delayed. France and Italy, who rely on undersea boats as their chief naval arm, were expected to send acceptances containing strongest reservations against even discussing abolitions of subwarfare...
...told you it would not be a surprise"-to reporters asking what birthday present she would give her father. The "surprise" was triple: 1) a bowl of water with four toy boats, ticketed For naval parity; 2) a toy terrier-I am Scottie too; 3) a slate-Let us reckon up our debits and credits...
...Guggenheim's interest in aviation. In March 1917, while taking a holiday in Florida, he saw the U. S. was at the War's threshold. He bought a Curtiss flying boat, took private instruction, and, when War was declared, received a lieutenant's commission in the naval air forces. Sent overseas, he organized naval air stations in England, France, Italy, won from the Italian government the Brevetto Superiore. After the War came another copper interlude, also the development of Chilean nitrate and Bolivian tin. But he was now engaged in the financial and business side of mining...
...Oglala" will display one of each type of naval mine on Monday, when visitors are to be specially entertained as part of the Navy Day celebration...