Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Affairs in Washington came to a head when the Senate, on resolution of Senator Borah, directed its Naval Affairs Committee to spend $10.000 investigating the activities of William B. Shearer at the Geneva Disarmament Conference in 1927 (TIME, Sept. 16). The Naval Committee pondered a little and then appointed a sub committee of three to conduct the actual hearing. Members of the subcommittee...
...rumor that American shipbuilding interests had maintained at Geneva during the Naval Disarmament Conference of the previous summer a propagandist in the person of one William B. Shearer...
...Schwab and I soon ascertained that Mr. Shearer was and had been for years an active propagandist regarding the naval policies of the U. S. We felt that the employment of such a man as an observer was in conflict with the policy to which the Bethlehem interests have strictly adhered, of refraining from participation in propaganda intended to influence the naval and military policies of the U.S. Government...
Meantime many others were moved to speak. Lobbyist Shearer, after saying that he had been helped by receiving confidential information from Naval officials alone, grew suddenly silent, counseled by Daniel Florence Cohalan, able Manhattan attorney...
Rear Admiral Hilary Pollard Jones, U. S. N. retired. U. S. naval expert at Geneva, accused of having close connections with Shearer, declared that he had never spoken to Shearer, had seen him only once. President Hoover himself denied the rumor of any such connection...