Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Naval Armaments. Appropriation to begin construction of three 10,000 ton cruisers, an item of small importance, became the bone of contention between the "Big Navy" men in Congress and the President. In this struggle it was the regular Republicans who led the revolt against the President. At first, in the House the revolt was quelled by a few votes; the cruisers were ousted from the Navy appropriation bill. The Senate put them back on. Then the House agreed with the Senate against the President...
...France and Italy having rejected,Great Britain and Japan having accepted President Coolidge's invitation to a naval disarmament conference, the President canvassed the possibility of a three-power meeting...
Last week the U. S. Supreme Court unanimously answered a four-year-old question: Was there fraud in the leasing of the Elk Hills naval oil reserve to Edward L. Doheny? The answer...
This answer ends the Government's civil action against Mr. Doheny. His leases are canceled; he will not be repaid the $12,000,000 which he spent in building a naval oil depot at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The Supreme Court went further. It said flatly that the whole transaction between Mr. Doheny and onetime Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall was tainted with corruption. The jury, which found these two old men not guilty of criminal charges (TIME, Dec. 27), may well consider itself rebuked by the highest court in the land...
Married. Mrs. Margaret Ross Lansdowne, widow of Commander Zachary Lansdowne (killed in wreck of naval dirigible Shenandoah, Sept. 3, 1925); to one John Caswell Jr., cotton man; in Washington...