Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second League Debate this year, which will be held on February 26, the University Debating team will meet the Brown and Wesleyan orators in the first triangular clash of the season. The question for discussion is "Resolved: That this Louse approves the recommendations of President Coolidge in regard to naval construction as contained in his budget message of December...
Voting against the President were such well-behaved Republicans as: Mr. Bacon of Long Island; Chairman Butler of the Naval Affairs Committee; Mr. Mills of New York; Chairman Snell of the Rules Committee and twice a guest of the President at White Pine Camp; and, of course, Leader Tilson...
Shrewd observers noted that this ridiculously large naval concentration can be moved within 24 hours to a point off the Mexican coast, should the Mexican Government fulfill its announced determination to seize certain U. S. oil lands in Mexico as "forfeited" under the new Mexican oil laws (TIME, Jan. 25, 1926). Thus the U. S. forces sent to Nicaragua last week constitute a two-edged threat...
Married. Mrs. Vera Ayers Huntington Cravath Larkin, 31, daughter of Corporation Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath; to William Francis Gibbs, 40, famed naval architect-engineer; in Manhattan. Lawyer Cravath was in Europe, unaware...
...were considered "seriously deficient in general education and general background." The motive for choice of the law by the latter was generally hope of increased salary. Few of them had any coherent notion of American or English history. One applicant was of the opinion that Magna Carta was a naval expedition...