Word: rears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Arthur Japy Hepburn met the Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1918 at Queenstown, Ireland, where he was commanding a U-Boat-chasing outfit of college boys. Rear Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn became a warm friend of the senior Senator from Virginia in 1932 at the Geneva Disarmament Conference, where he was naval adviser to the U. S. Delegation. Last week off San Diego, where he was commanding the U. S. Scouting Force in maneuver's, Vice Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn got word that those two old acquaintances, one now the President...
...Rear-Admiral Yates Stirling, Commandant of the U. S. Navy Yard in Brooklyn. N. Y., sounded off in similar, though more cautious, vein: "The rise of [Italian] air power . . . seems to have drawn the teeth from the League's Sanctions. . . . The British Fleet, the great arbiter of the seas [can] no longer be considered invincible, at least not in closed seas in near proximity to Italy's land-based air force. ... A massed air attack ... to accomplish the destruction of Great Britain's mighty war fleet . . . might succeed...
...editor of the most influential U. S. church magazine (Christian Herald), director of the phil anthropic Penney Foundation, a brisk weekly radiorator and ringing champion of Youth. "Dan" Poling's parents were Oregon pioneers. He came early by his robust, gladsome Christianity. Aged 11, he perched on the rear axle of William Jennings Bryan's carriage as the Commoner, stumping Oregon, drove into his county. When Bryan finished his speech he leaned beneath his carriage, shook hands with the spellbound boy. Aged 18, Poling was a spellbinder and preacher himself. Barely eight years out of Dallas (Ore.) College...
...Public Utility bonds led with $31,000,000. and Railroad bonds came next with $12,000,000. Among the stocks are 1514 shares of Amoskeag valued altogether at $1.00. Real estate was assessed at $12,500,000. and rent brought $500,000. Loans and mortagages brought up the rear with $2,500,000. Yielding a revenue...
...American farmers will continue to expect some kind of governmental aid. I believe that they will be given some kind of subsidy because they held the balance of power in our bi-party system. I believe that some kind of aid is due them because they produce and rear the great bulk of the citizens of the United States. For instance, in 1930 farm people had twice as many children per 1000 women 15 to 45 years of age as did the cities...