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...bathroom of his Washington home, Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus Swanson, 73, skidded, bumped broke...
Secretary of War Dern and Secretary of the Navy Swanson: The Administration policy was for a strong Navy. ... It was for a sensible Army, too. . . . The President was as good a naval officer as any admiral and he, personally-more than Secretary Swanson-did the Navy job. The Army did not lie so close to his training and tradition and an opportunity was lost-because Secretary Dern was too complacent in fighting Mr. Ickes for a share of Public Works. . . . Those hundreds of millions-which must be spent some day-all were set aside for Mr. Ickes not to spend...
Died. John ("Old Itchfoot") Swanson, 65, onetime rich, notorious gold prospector; in Los Angeles. He went to Nome in the 1890's, staked out the "Little Minook" mine, gathered in $15,000 a day for a great many days, was a crony of Tex Rickard, Rex Beach, Jack London and "Klondike Kate" Rockwell, poured his money in a yellow river across the gambling tables. Broke, hoping for another big strike, he succumbed in a dismal flophouse last week to acute indigestion...
...visitor was Admiral William H. Standley, Chief of Naval Operations. According to Admiral Standley, he and his Commander-in-Chief "talked fishing and the Navy." Still talking Navy two days later, the President made Navy Day (Roosevelt I's birthday) the occasion to write Secretary of the Navy Swanson that in the light of world conditions it was "imperative" to "increase-the strength of the American Navy to a degree commensurate with America's needs, interests and responsibilities...
...admitted. The casts of the three plays follows. MINNIE FIELD Jim A. I. Abelow Tip Field J. H. Thomas, Jr. Alt J. Barnard, Jr. Mel T. O. Hunter Cornie J. Flower Stage Manager, E. R. Clarke IN THE ZONE Smitty G. C. Walworth, Jr. Davis R. G. Wheeler Swanson H. W. Anderson Scotty J. O. Banson, Jr. Ivan R. B. Seymer...