Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chance put one Hoover in the White House. The electorate put in another. Last week the second Hoover added a third Hoover to the household. President Hoover appointed Lieut.-Commander Gilbert C. Hoover of Columbus, Ohio, to be his Naval aid. The first Hoover, as everyone knows, is tall, greying Irwin ("Ike") Hoover, chief usher at the White House since the time of President McKinley. Hoovers Nos. 1, 2 and 3 are not related...
Captain B. B. Wygant, Professor of Naval Science and Tactics, declined to speak of the Shearer situation specifically, because he knew nothing about it excepting what he read in the newspapers, the frequent errors of whose reporting make him hesitate to commit himself. However, on the general subject of the proposed naval equality of Great Britain and the United States, Captain Wygant said that naval officers in general were in favor of any plan that would produce peace, "but perhaps naval officers more than others realize the sacrifices that are entailed by not being ready when any emergency may arise...
...Naval officers in general are heartily in favor of the success of a conference which would bring about parity as between the navies of England and the United States, provided that due regard is given to any reasonable danger that might threaten from any other direction...
...visit of Premier Ramsay MacDonald to the United States to meet President Hoover in a conference on naval limitation is significant, showing as it does, the importance being attached by statesmen to a reduction of the machinery of modern warfare. Is it not equally important, however, that the feeling of the intelligent citizenry of the world toward war be influenced and moderated just as much as the actual physical armaments of the nation...
Monday, October 7--Comp. Literature 36, French 6, Geology 5, History 1, History 5b, History 40, Naval Science 2, Philosophy 1, Philosophy 3a, Philosophy 4, Philosophy 11, Physics C, Physics D, Psychology...