Word: parleying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parley. With high hope John Farmer watched the Governor of his State start for Washington to see the President. At the White House they assembled: Governors Caulfield of Missouri, Emmerson of Illinois. Leslie of Indiana, Cooper of Ohio, Conley of West Virginia, Pollard of Virginia, Weaver of Nebraska, Hammill of Iowa, Reed of Kansas, Erickson of Montana. Republican Governor Flem Sampson of Kentucky wanted to attend but did not dare leave his state lest Lieutenant Governor James E Breathitt. a Democrat, exercise executive authority to make political appointments. Governor Sampson sent Republican Senator John Robsion as his proxy. Governors Horton...
Married. George A. Gordon, member of the drafting committee which wrote the London Naval Treaty, secretary of the U. S. Embassy at Paris, leading U. S. "continuing expert" on Disarmament since the Naval Limitations Parley in 1927; to Mrs. Alice Vandergrift Garrett of Washington, D. C.; at Dublin, where she was given in marriage by the U. S. Minister to the Irish Free State, Frederick A. Sterling...
...explanation of Britain's insistence upon limiting U. S. cruisers to 18 at the risk of disrupting the parley was as follows: If the U. S. had 21 cruisers, Japan insisted upon upping its big-cruiser strength proportionately. That prospect frightened the British Dominions, particularly Australia and New Zealand, which live in chronic dread of Japanese aggression. They informed the home government that unless Japanese cruiser strength was held down as a consequence of U. S. limitation at 18, they would build big cruisers on their own authority and thus disrupt any prospect of parity and limitation. Britain, caught...
Time Killing. Unable to kill the Treaty, "Captain" Johnson killed time instead by a great hue and cry for all the confidential papers leading up to and through the London parley. He was indignant when Secretary of State Stimson sent him only paraphrases of these papers...
...Wartime submarine, lying out of commission in the Navy's Philadelphia "boneyard." Last week the Navy announced that Wilkins could have the boat, but that he must make haste for it must be destroyed before July 1, 1936, under the terms of the London Naval Parley...