Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Australian Navy, docked in New York harbor his flagship, the 10,000-ton Australia. His sailors did the city, the shows and Coney Island. He and some of his officers watched polo matches on Long Island. Then the Australia steamed away to pay a visit to the U. S. naval academy...
Maurice Bokanowski was born in Havre, but spent his childhood in Toulon, French naval base, where his father made a fortune in department stores. Admitted to the bar when comparatively young he soon became one of the most brilliant, popular and highly feed lawyers in Paris. Originally of radical sympathies he became more and more conservative. His career in many respects was not unlike that of ex-Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover. Grateful Parisians will remember him as the man who modernized their sadly inefficient telephone system...
...than Moose and his own Department, he refused, when a Berlin journalist interviewed him last week, to be drawn out. What did he think about the operation of the Dawes Plan? "I am not an expert on financial situations," he said. What did he think about the Franco-British naval treaty? "I am not the Foreign Minister," he said...
Foreign Policy: Nominee Smith accused the Coolidge Administration of disrespectful meddling and Imperialism in Latin America. He espoused the Monroe Doctrine. He eschewed "entangling alliances." He blamed the Republicans for "nothing effective" in the way of international disarmament since the naval tonnage agreements of 1921. (Nominee, Hoover had mentioned foreign policy only in connection with its "one primary object," peace...
Retired. Rear Admiral Edward Walter Eberle, D. S. M., chairman of the executive committee of the General Board of the U. S. Navy, Wartime commandant of the U. S. Naval Academy, reaching the Navy's retirement age (64). A Texan, he entered the Navy as an Annapolis plebe in 1881. He fought at Santiago; rounded the world on the fleet cruise ordered by President Roosevelt; helped adapt the airplane, radio, torpedo, depth mine, smoke screen to Navy uses. In 1915 he worked out the modern technique of destroyer units; in 1921 he was an organizer and the first commandant...