Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Straggler Bailey of North Carolina, Commerce Committee chairman, the neutrality bill's virtual erasure of the U. S. merchant marine is a major and unnecessary tragedy. After earnest counsel with Rear Admiral Emory Scott Land of the Maritime Commission, he presented to the Senate, with his peculiar, Biblical eloquence, the Admiral's conclusions. (Meantime his onetime colleague, cadaverous William Gibbs McAdoo, now head of the American President Line, used his prerogative as an ex-Senator to lobby slickly on the Senate floor for Pacific Coast shipping...
Closest parallel is perhaps Senator John Scott's inquiry in the Ku Klux Klan in 1871, which began as a straight political move, accepted rumors, facts, alarms, nevertheless succeeded despite its flounderings, or perhaps because of them, in startling the victorious North with a picture of the desperate state of mind of the defeated South. Few correspondents would give Chairman Dies credit for statesmanship. Many held him only a showman. Some considered him a dangerous demagogue; some gave credit for the Committee's more effective work to Investigator J. B. Matthews and Attorney Rhea Whitley. But the Committee...
Gruff old Rear Admiral Emory Scott Land, chairman of the U. S. Maritime Commission, barked on the White House steps: "It's a nice idea, but what are you going to do if somebody sticks his nose inside the zone?" If the U. S. Navy, with what help its weak sisters to the South can give, actually throws a line of peace police around the Americas, can the 22 German merchantmen now holed up in Latin American ports return to coastwise trade-lanes, cruise without fear of British men-o'-war? What if British and German raiders meet...
...merchant-navy man who was not bothered by all this was Maritime Commission Chairman-Admiral Emory Scott Land. On the chance that any time within the next two years Congress might want many more merchantmen than the U. S. now has, particularly merchantmen convertible into aircraft carriers and other handy things to have around in an emergency, Chairman-Admiral Land meant to have ships on hand. His answer to last week's shipbuilding jitters: to shovel out orders for seven ships more to the overworked yards which are currently building merchantmen...
...WORLD Is ROUND-Gertrude Stem -William R. Scott...