Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposed Navy program will cost $740,000,000. It is the first of four legs of the 20-year Navy program totalling $2,580,000,000, as outlined by Secretary Wilbur (TIME, Dec. 26). Last week Secretary Wilbur wrote the Naval Affairs Committee that he has made a mistake in his previous communications to that body. He had said the 20-year program would cost the U. S. $168,000,000 per annum. Then he had discovered $129,000,000 was the right figure...
...choice, tangy naval skipper is Rear-Admiral Ernest Augustus Taylor, 52, blunt, peppery and retired into politics. As Commander of the battle cruiser Renown he carried Edward of Wales to Canada (1919) and to Australia and New Zealand (1920). Smart Americans have met Admiral Taylor in Manhattan as the guest of Art-Tycoon Otto Kahn...
Therefore aristocrats of several continents harkened and were diverted, last week, when Ernest Augustus Taylor flayed at a Conservative rally in London the motives which caused U. S. President Calvin Coolidge to convene his recent, abortive Naval Limitations Parley at Geneva (TIME...
...fixed the standard length of a metre bar in terms of the wave length of cadmiun light. It was he who helped devise the Michelson-Morley experiment in interference of light, with bearing on the Einstein theory. But the learned world did not know him as a former naval officer, nor as an excellent violinist, nor as a keen tennis player, nor as an amateur of literature and drama. A self-taught artist, Dr. Michelson had his only instruction in drawing as a midshipman at Annapolis...
...shake hands with one hand and shoot a gun with the other?" he asked, referring to Secretary Wilbur's naval projects and Scnator Kelogg's attempts to create peace. "Since the world war", President Butler continued", the dominant question in the minds of men has been the avoidance of war. The one overwhelining and dominant fear of man is that such a catastrophic madness may come again...