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Word: naval (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meaning closer to earth, he next day let his Secretary of State voice further argument. Statesman Stimson distributed to newsmen a brief, carefully-timed statement which reminded U. S. taxpayers that unless world navies are further restricted, the U. S. in the next 15 years will carry out a naval building and replacement program costing $1,170,000,000. "And if it proceeds, other nations will be impelled to follow suit." The program includes the navy's 70-odd auxiliary ship plan, plus capital ship replacements under the Washington arms treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Action! | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...government tried and failed to limit naval armaments with the British Conservative government under Prime Minister Baldwin. Destiny seemed to be working in President Hoover's behalf, for at the very moment of his Arlington speech, the Baldwin government was being voted down by the British electorate. Past experience has shown that Britain's Labor Party, now on the threshold of power, is less suspicious of naval reduction than the Tories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Action! | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...were making in developing a "yardstick." Through Secretary Adams he ordered the Navy's 1931 budget estimates held up at the department instead of being forwarded to the Treasury. The President postponed the estimates for two months in the expectation that within that time a new basis for naval reduction will be found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Action! | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...November 1927, Sinclair went on trial in Washington for conspiracy to defraud the U. S. in the leasing of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve. Secretly he hired a squad of 14 detectives from the agency of William J. Burns to "investigate" his jurors. Friend Day actually arranged for their employment and received their daily reports. Midway through the trial the government, through undercover men of its own, discovered Sinclair's method of shadowing justice. A mistrial was immediately declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Day In, Burns Out | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Reactions. Abroad, the news of Labor's victory was warmly received. In Washington, Naval officials pointed out that even though the Labor party had no clear majority, the diehard, nationalistic Tory group was definitely defeated. On receipt of the news President Hoover began planning to call another international conference on naval reductions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Labor's Day | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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