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Scene of the operations, Secretary Swanson told newshawks, would be the Puget Sound-Alaska-Hawaii "triangle." Contrary to pacifists' beliefs, the fleet would at no time approach within 2,000 mi. of Japanese territory or the Japanese fleet. Furthermore, on May 3, simultaneously with the beginning of the maneuvers. Admiral Frank Brooks Upham, commander-in-chief of the Asiatic Fleet, would steam into Yokohama harbor on his flagship Augusta for a "good will" visit. While this year's Pacific maneuvers involve the greatest tonnage since the War, the Secretary pointed out that the Navy has more tonnage available...
...Also at Lakehurst are two blimps (one metal-clad). Last week Secretary Swanson ordered the Navy's lighter-than-air base at Sunnyvale, Calif.-home port of the late Macon-converted for heavier-than-air training, planned to concentrate all future lighter-than-air activities at Lakehurst. A third Navy blimp, still at Sunnyvale, will be transferred to Lakehurst...
...appetites. First to go was Mrs. Barbour's chicken salad. While a score of lunchers held out their plates for second helpings, Mrs. John Nance Garner piped, "I'd like some," got some. So did some of her neighbors, including Mrs. Cordell Hull and Mrs. Claude Augustus Swanson. The rest went on to cake...
...every opportunity the Roosevelt Brain Trust has been trying to intimidate Japan by bluff," boomed Rengo. "We have dealt a severe blow and stupefaction to the American Secretary of the Navy, Swanson. . . . The morale of Japanese sailors is far superior to that of American sailors. . . . Japan is ready to meet any contingencies and is sufficiently prepared for any changes arising from termination of the Washington Treaty. . . . The shipbuilding possibilities of America are far inferior to those of Japan,* and it would not be easy for the United States to rise to the Japanese level...
These facts were just developing in last week's testimony when?Pop! President Roosevelt called in newshawks, announced that he had appointed Messrs. Baruch, Johnson, Secretaries Hull, Morgenthau, Dern, Wallace, Swanson, Perkins, General Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry L. Roosevelt, Rail Coordinator Joseph B. Eastman and Foreign Trade Adviser George N. Peek to take the profit out of war. The announcement knocked the Senatorial inquisitors completely out of the spotlight...