Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three hours on end last week President Hoover and Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson sat facing each other in the White House. Solemnly they talked about the progress being made toward another conference on the limitation of naval armaments...
Great is the rivalry among U. S. battleship crews for the efficiency pennant, highest naval prize, fondly called the "meatball." Secretary Adams knew no uninspired solution of the tie would do. Last week, inspired at last, the Navy Department announced that when the Maryland and New Mexico are apart on separate cruises this year, each may fly the pennant. When they are together in the same fleet, the New Mexico shall have it on odd numbered days of the month, the Maryland on even numbered ones. This compromise seemed Solomonic indeed-until the crew of the Maryland realized that...
...Walker Harden, a young newsgatherer on a lark (with Cartoonist John Tinney McCutcheon), swelled with patriotic rapture as he watched Spanish ship after Spanish ship founder. To him the dimly-seen U. S. S. Olympia, hulled five times and her rigging shot away, was the epitome of U. S. naval power, of U. S. naval glory...
...reaching Geneva, he let it be known that he had in pocket an important declaration concerning world peace. At British delegation headquarters it was hinted that the prime minister would make at least a partial announcement of progress made thus far in his almost daily parleys' anent naval reduction with President Hoover's forthright, hubble-bubbling Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes (TIME, June...
...projected naval reduction pact to be explicitly based on the obligation to disarm, implicit in the Kellogg Pact under which most of the nations of the world have already "renounced war as an instrument of national policy...