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...Navy? Because the admirals and experts of the General Board are predominantly Big-Navy men, observers last week scrutinized with interest the Board's astonishingly prompt recommendation. Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, heavy and stooped new head of the Board, had testified before the Senate committee on ratification: "We do not get parity with Great Britain. . . . We should have maintained the ratio of vessels [with Japan]. ... I do not believe in any 6-in.-gun cruisers." Admiral Bristol is a seadog trained to do diplomatic tricks. Many a time has he maintained U. S. relations with foreign statesmen...
...slump was worldwide, that its causes antedated the Hoover Administration, that the U. S. was suffering less than other countries. He insisted the Democrats would have lost their heads in such a crisis, that conditions would have been much worse. He lavished praise upon President Hoover for the "prompt and effective" steps he took last November to minimize the effects of the stockmarket crash by holding a series of White House conferences on public works, wages, employment (TIME, Nov. 25, et seq.). Declared Statesman Stimson: "As a result of this the ship of business was held steady. . . . That was intelligent...
...Case. A prompt verdict that Vice President Gray had shot his superior, then himself, was returned. The road and the two families (both were married, Byers leaves five children, Gray none) stifled further details. And thus was culminated a long, bitter rivalry...
Jews were prompt to approve the Mandates Commission's findings. On behalf of the Zionist Organization of America, Robert Szold cabled Sir Eric Drummond, secretary general of the League: "To the Jews' of America the commission's restatement of the objects of the Palestine mandate and its emphatic finding that the mandatory [Britain] has positive and constructive obligations to devote itself actively to the establishment of a Jewish National Home, is a message of hope and encouragement...
...Prompt rebuttal is that in emergency any spot suffices for a Jew to pray...