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...manufacturers got nowhere with their arguments. Nevertheless, they continued to apply pressure. Reports have circulated freely this autumn that the British Air Ministry was preparing to buy 1,500 fighting planes from unnamed U. S. manufacturers. Last week Secretary of War Woodring and Secretary of the Navy Swanson, wearying of the pressure, decided to have the question of foreign sales settled formally and finally by President Roosevelt. After a White House conference, Secretary Woodring announced that the President had ordered the State Department to invoke the export licensing section of the Espionage Act, refuse to license the export...
...well keep on going and come in on the flood tide and breeze the next day. We sailed around all night between the San Francisco lightship and the Faralone Islands, twice during the night we passed the Bar Pilot's schooner, Lady Mine, in command of Captain Alex Swanson, who spoke to us wanting to know what in hell we were doing out there...
...Cabinet meeting was broken up last week when the Secretary of the Navy unexpectedly appeared. Seventy-four-year-old Claude Swanson has been confined for the last four months to Washington's Naval Hospital. Hastily the meeting adjourned outdoors where Secretary Swanson sat in the back seat of his open car with President Roosevelt beside him, while other members gathered around to pass the time...
...Harvard lineup: g, Swanson (Boston player); rf, Bradley, Sheridan; lf, Powell, Gosline; rh, Alexandre, Hassett; ch, Jacobson; lh, Phillips; ro, Hastings; ri, Porter; c, Johnson, Vincent; li, Motley; lo, Stubbs, Sinnott...
...President's merry dinner came to an equally abrupt end with a real news flash from Washington. He knew that Secretary of the Navy Swanson had been critically ill with pleurisy all week. But the news was that the President's cousin, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, had suddenly succumbed to a heart attack during an attack of intestinal influenza. Cutting his Harvard evening short, the President and his three sons drove to the Presidential special, did some hurried telegraphing. In an hour he had word that his cousin's funeral would be held...