Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Neither Theodore Roosevelt nor Kaiser Wilhelm II seemed to have much success in taming Dictator Castro. Also a series of British, French, and Dutch naval blockades of the Venezuelan coast, or parts of it, did not bring Dictator-President Cipriano Castro perceptibly to reason. He started out in 1900 by springing a successful coup d'etat, and grandiloquently announcing to the world that he proposed to unite Venezuela with Colombia and Ecuador in a league "against encroachment by Yankees or Europeans." Eight years later the catalog of his unparalleled audacities included: 1) repudiating Venezuelan bonded debts to European investors...
...obstacle to telling the world by ship's radio what the traveller was saying and doing. The Navy Department therefore obligingly ordered the cruiser Rochester to steam westward from Panama to the vicinity of Galapagos and thence relay the Maryland's rebounding messages to the big naval radio station at Balboa.* Notwithstanding this assistance, the Maryland found Andean ether conditions so bad that no messages could be sent for six hours one day. George Barr Baker, the chief Hoover censor and publicist, explained matters to the world's press when he could. The broadcast of Goodwill dropped...
...Passed a bill authorizing $10,000,000 for improvements at seven naval stations; sent it to the Senate...
...called for a total of $29,800,233,790 to run all branches of the Government. The Congresses appropriated $29,478,282.294, cutting the Budget Bureau's estimates by only $321,951,495, or 1.16% of the total. Of this amount, $135,468,732 was saved by the Naval Disarmament Conference, from the Budget for 1923. Since 1923, the Congresses have appropriated only $55,971,630 less than the Budget Bureau's estimates, or a margin of faultfinding and disagreement of less than .2%. President Coolidge declared himself most gratified by such "hearty co-operation...
...preliminary statement of the results was given in a paper by Professor Stetson and Miss Olmstead at the fall meeting of the American Astronomical Society at Amherst. Since then the investigation of thousands of observations for latitude of the Naval Observatory at Washington has been analyzed at the Harvard Laboratory and Dr. Stetson announces this appears unmistakeably to affirm the results of his previous study. The fact that this rise and fall of the value in latitude is gradual and systematic and represents a range nearly 20 times the value of the probable error leaves little room for doubt...