Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Administration often have their innings with Congress. So it was with Rear Admiral William Pickett Magruder, whom Secretary of the Navy Wilbur lately silenced and sidetracked for his public allegations of Navy extravagance and inefficiency (TIME, Oct. 3 et seq.). Last week Admiral Magruder was called before the House Naval Affairs Committee and told to speak freely. Admiral Magruder spoke (see ARMY & NAVY...
...taxes alone. The cost of the entire 20-year Navy building plan was estimated at $2,900,000,000 or about one-sixth of the present national debt. In advocating the new program, which was transmitted by Secretary Wilbur to Speaker Longworth of the House and thence to the Naval Affairs Committee, President Coolidge assured questioners that it did not conflict with the economy program of his Administration. Four new battleships, costing some $148,000,000, were omitted from the Wilbur list, though building up the U. S. Fleet to a strength permitted under the limitation treaty of 1923 with...
...Raising. A clause of the Deficiency Bill called for $5,635,000 to modernize the U. S. S. Oklahoma and Nevada but forbade using any of the money to increase the range of their guns. Up stood Fred Albert Britten, two-fisted Illinois Republican, member of the Naval Affairs Committee. He set forth that 13 of the 18 U. S. battleships cannot shoot as far as can 20 of Britain's ships, ten of Japan's; that to elevate the Oklahoma and Nevada guns to give them the same range as British and Japanese guns, would not contravene the spirit...
England, long pictured as the naval ogre of the world, a monster uncontent with parity in armament with the United States, may be given her answer. For, speaking in the House of Commons two weeks ago William Clive Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, announced that two of the big British cruisers that had been building under the terms of the disarmament treaty had been abandoned. At the same time he declared that Britain intended to restrict it cruiser tonnage next year to a mar', below that of the treaty agreement...
...Kenworthy, M. P.-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). The Thesis. Nine years after the "war to end war," war is still a legal institution. Italy rattles her arms in France's ear; Great Britain looks at Japan and prepares Singapore; Japan, the United States and Great Britain engage in a naval armament race; Russia growls at Rumania; in times of peace everyone is making ready. But isn't war unthinkable? Would it be possible to prosecute another war successfully with the memory of the Great War's horrors so fresh in the minds of the people? War is always...