Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never of spirit. Last week, on the heels of President Coolidge's unminced reiteration of his country's intention to look out from now on for its own interests, naval and financial, the Navy Department proclaimed its intention: "To create, maintain and operate a navy second to none, and in conformity with the ratios established by the Washington conference...
...like that of a fire-chief who insists upon having for his men hose-nozzles and helmets no whit inferior to those considered necessary by the experienced chief of a neighboring town. Professional reputations are at stake as well as national safety. The Navy Department, and its "second to none" statement, were rather the agents than the reagents of the Coolidge speech. The common object was to put momentum behind the Department's cruiser-building bill (15 cruisers, 1 aircraft carrier) which got delayed in the last session of Congress and which, in the imminent session, appears impeded...
From the standpoint of the world market there is none; but from the Russian internal market standpoint there is a cruel joker indeed. The facts, as confirmed from Moscow, are that ruthless Comrade Josef Stalin is deliberately robbing the Russian market of things that Russians want to buy, in order to sell those things abroad and reap foreign capital. Thus correspondents humorously described a recent paper famine" in Moscow, although the Soviet Monopoly was even then shipping paper to Persia in thumping shipload lots. The deal was put through by His Highness Timoor Tash, favorite Courtier of the Shah...
...Palace of Justice in Rosario, and by the tunnel of the Santa Fe rail road, anarchists last week placed bombs. In due time the bombs exploded, caused damage, hurt none. Argentine police, unruffled, arrested sev eral suspects...
Harvard, to be sure, is none too powerful. The Crimson has a strong running and lateral passing attack, but lacks the forward passing threat that is essential to make the running offense a distinct success. It is fairly easy to come up and stop running plays when you know your opponents can't complete forwards...