Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statement began: "The President said: I have been much interested. . . ." What he was interested in was the disclosure in a New York court that "a naval expert'' had received more than $50,000 from "three naval shipbuilding corporations," for propaganda that he had carried on for a bigger Navy and against naval limitation...
That was clear enough. No one had any doubt that "a naval expert" was William B. Shearer and "three shipbuilding corporations" were Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., American Brown Boveri Corp., Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., whom Mr. Shearer has sued for a balance of $257,655 on a claim of $308,885 for propaganda services (TIME, Sept...
...Back in Washington one morning before breakfast the President greeted Secretary of State Stimson, Secretary of the Navy Adams, and six Admirals?all of whom sat down to eat, to talk about naval reductions. Next day the President sent a new note (contents secret) to England about cruisers...
...most foreign-policied President since Woodrow Wilson is Herbert Hoover. In six months in office he has stirred up a new naval disarmament todo, and last week he opened up another question, discarded not so long ago: U. S. adherence to the World Court...
...Coolidge's elbow, Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams in a stiff white collar, holding his white straw hat aloft with a gesture of dignified salutation, watched the new hull slide slowly down to the wet sea. The representative of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee saw nothing?neither the grey hull, the grey mist nor the white apparel. But he, blind Senator Schall of Minnesota (see p. 16), heard the patriotic whistles of the harbor shipping...