Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exchange of views on naval reduction has brought the two Nations so close to agreement that the obstacles in previous conferences arising out of Anglo-American disagreements seem now substantially removed. . . . We have been able to end, we trust forever, all competitive building between ourselves . . . by agreeing to a parity of fleets, category by category...
...White House telephone tinkled. Secretary George Akerson answered it. His Chief was calling from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Now, said the President, it could be told: he and Prime Minister MacDonald had agreed to have the latter issue invitations to France, Italy and Japan to discuss naval reductions with Britain and the U. S. in London on Jan. 20. The invitations would go out on the morrow (see p. 27). Like most momentous news it was very simple. There was nothing more to say - yet - about the historic "conversations." So the President helped the world press...
...examination of the roaring, boasting, accusing cause of the present lobby excitements -William Baldwin Shearer, "AMERICAN, CHRISTIAN, PROTESTANT, NATIONALIST," the high-powered propagandist who is suing the Bethlehem, American Brown Boveri and Newport News shipbuilding companies for $257,655 back pay for alleged services in breaking up the naval arms conference at Geneva in 1927 and boosting the Jones-White Act (ship subsidies) last year (TIME, Sept. 2 et seq.}. Company officials had testified they did hire Shearer, in admitted folly. Now the Senators had to hear Shearer. Between his gusts of anger and invective they learned...
When these statements appeared in the press, newsgatherers at once sought to question Cary Travers Grayson M. D., the naval physician whom Woodrow Wilson raised to a Rear-Admiral's rank and kept beside him at the White House. But Dr. Grayson was inaccessible in Europe. From the late President's daughters-Miss Margaret Wilson, Mrs. Francis Bowes Sayre, Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo-came no statements. The President's widow was inaccessible in the Orient...
...sailing time drew near it became more and more apparent that naval reductions, Prohibition treaties and all other specific topics were receding in the Prime Minister's mind, that he was setting out for a goodwill trip much like Herbert Hoover's tour of Latin America last winter as President-elect. His final word as the boat-train pulled out of crowded Waterloo Station was: "I hope to be able to do something to narrow the Atlantic...