Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thought and appropriations each year. In view of the unwieldy size of the gathering and of a need for more intensive deliberations, Superintendent P. H. Claxton of Tulsa, Okla., proposed that next year's voting delegates be reduced to a band of 500, plus officers; representation to be in ratio with N. E. A. state memberships. The convention pondered his idea...
Treaty at Issue. Strife arose because the British insisted on pushing their thesis that the Washington Treaty of 1922, limiting capital ships of the U. S., Britain and Japan in the famed 5-5-3 ratio, should be modified or at least discussed at the present Parley. The U. S. Chief Delegate, Hugh Simpson Gibson, resisted the British pressure, maintaining that the Parley had been called to extend the 5-5-3 ratio to smaller ships, and not to modify it in any way. Suddenly the Japanese, previously supposed to favor the U. S. position, switched over to support British...
...said that Japan does not desire to foster the 5-5-3 ratio, but rather considers its implications irritating to her amour propre. "We had not thought," said Viscount Saito smoothly, "that the ratio on capital ships should necessarily be extended to auxiliaries." This first point was in itself a polite negation of U. S. aims at the Parley; but the second point squarely supported the British thesis, thus: "The British proposal for reducing the size of capital ships and extending the age limit undoubtedly has merit, proving that it will contribute in no small measure toward the diminution...
...Washington Treaty ratio became the theme of many a jest. When U. S. Chief Delegate Gibson and British Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe returned from an informal golf match they waggishly remarked that their scores were "in the 5-5 ratio...
Cleverer was a Japanese attaché who noted that the ages of the chief delegates closely approximated a 3-5-5 ratio. Mr. Gibson is 43; Mr. Bridgeman 62; and Viscount Saito 69. Japanese thought that a good ratio, a good joke...