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...began with a meeting of the Navy League's executive committee to ponder its president's charge that President Hoover was "restricting, reducing and starving" the U. S. fleet, subordinating its strength to foreign powers, nullifying authorized construction programs with economy. After due deliberation the committee voted 7-to-i in support of Mr. Gardiner, affirming "its faith in the statement issued." Only dissenter was Demo-crat Henry Breckinridge, onetime Assistant Secretary of War, who took exception to Mr. Gardiner's "unseemly and unjustified language concerning the President of the United States." After posing for photographs the whole committee went...
...Thursday the court, geared up to fresh efficiency by Chief Justice Hughes, had heard them all and no others were ready for presentation. For once the highest tribunal was functioning faster than the lawyers practicing before it. After its next meeting the court regularly adjourned for three weeks to ponder cases heard, write opinions...
...motorman commented publicly on M. Citroen's proposal. Directorates must ponder and decide...
...year's work, in biology, exhibits to a higher degree the fault from which the course as a whole chiefly suffers. The statement in the catalogue, "Biology A is intended for students who plan to go no further in this subject" is one which the department could very profitably ponder at length. The implication is that the student is seeking a comprehensive picture of the world in which he lives, of the relation of living plants and animals to their surroundings. There is no implication that he desires, or can, learn and retain a mass of detail needed only...
...Wood's 13-year-old son, Garfield Arthur Wood Jr., in whose name Miss America VIII was entered, was not engraved on the tall, gold Harmsworth Cup. Whether or not it will be is up to the Yachtsmen's Association of America which will meet to ponder the problem soon. The crew of a tugboat salvaged Miss England II. Her stern was cracked apart, her deck ripped off but her Rolls-Royce motors were practically undamaged. Her designer, Fred Cooper, declared she could be patched up and. with bigger motors, be made capable...