Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have given thought to this vital question, and that there should be dismay among those who cannot understand how parity in cruisers can be arrived at unless it is to be a parity having regard to the commitments and obligations of each nation? . . . There is no nation, whose naval commitments and obligations are so great and so complicated as the British Empire...
...That the Cabinet of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald hangs in fact by a thread, and may fall after the Christmas recess perhaps during the Five Power Naval Conference, was evident last week when the bill to reorganize Britain's pitifully depressed coal industry (TIME, Oct. 28) came up for its second reading. In no sense Communist or Radical, the bill epitomizes Scot MacDonald's own brand of "safe and sturdy Socialism." It provides: 1) shortening the miners' working day from eight hours to seven and one-half; 2) establishment of a "National Industrial Board...
Pacified and intrigued by such unanswerable "American arguments," the Deputies next day gave the Tardieu Government a vote of confidence, 331 to 167. Paradoxically, Tardieu the pseudo-American proclaimed later in the week a policy in regard to the Hoover-MacDonald Five Power Naval Conference which might prove obnoxious to many U. S. patriots. Quizzed at a joint session of the Chamber's Naval and Foreign Affairs Committees, the squarejawed, pugnacious Prime Minister rapped: "No final decision will be taken at the London Conference. It is merely preliminary to the Disarmament Conference of the League of Nations at Geneva...
Every U. S. schoolboy knows about the fight in Hampton Roads between the Monitor and the Merrimac, and about the naval battle in Mobile Bay, when Farragut said, "Damn the torpedoes! Jouett, full speed! Four bells, Captain Drayton!" But many a schoolboy's parents may have forgotten how one man played a principal role in both duels, was wounded in both. He was Franklin Buchanan, Admiral, Confederate States Navy...
...years later he went as third lieutenant to the famed frigate Constellation, four years older than himself, which had spouted broadsides against the French, the English, the pirates of Tripoli. In 1835 he married Anne Catherine Lloyd of Baltimore, who bore him eight children-all daughters. When the Naval Academy at Annapolis was founded (1845), Buchanan was made Superintendent. A stern disciplinarian, he once unbent so far as to forward the following application from 38 cadets to the Secretary of the Navy: "Sir-We the undersigned midshipmen of the Naval School at Annapolis respectfully request permission to wear our beards...