Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...south to deadlock the Tiger that football prophets began to wonder. The Navy sank the Princeton bark, 27 to 13, a close victory over Lehigh and a four-touchdown verdict over the Quakers from Sophomore have been the only other engagements. By the time Palmer Stadium saw the naval antics of the midshipmen, the injuries and the gloom at Princeton were at their worst. Since that day three weeks ago, much has been happening in the New Jersey town, how much no one will know until this afternoon...
Lehigh, coming to Princeton, seemed stagestruck; for two periods their backs did nothing but kick against a Princeton eleven which, improved and chastened after a naval defeat, tramped through the water...
...Roosevelt, when he took office as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, pushed the building program, for he saw that a crisis such as that over Venezuela in 1895, might bring the nation into war with a power vastly superior in naval resources and that our weakness in this respect might prove our undoing. The critical state of Cuba led Roosevelt to believe that an explosion in the island might occur at any time, and that the country would do well to have a fleet ready for action in the Caribbean Sea. The promptness with which our fleets swung into action...
...famous Rooseveltian humor was at work even in his performance of his official duties. At the opening of the Spanish war, many seaside cities became frightened and asked for naval protection. One city was so active in its demands that the Secretary dug up, almost literally, one of the old monitors, leaky and water-logged, and had it towed to the harbor in question. Here the old tub remained, in momentary danger of sinking but the citizens were content...
...present there is great agitation in naval circles for a larger Merchant. Marine, both for purposes of furthering economic prosperity, and as a safety measure. An extensive construction program is in prospect, which, if carried out, should rank the American Marine among the highest in the world. I believe that the impetus to this expansive policy came largely from the aggressive ideas and practice of Theodore Roosevelt...