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First to God and then to the President a 12-year-old St. Paul, Minn., boy appealed to grant his three-fold wish: to see the U. S. fleet, to inspect some Army airplanes to own a bicycle. The President was away but Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus Swanson offered to grant the first two requests, advised continued prayer for the bicycle...
...bestowed an LL. D. on Secretary of Commerce Roper and Bryant & Stratton (Baltimore, Md.) acclaimed him a Master of Business Administration. Secretary of Labor Perkins ended the list with LL. D.'s from Goucher and Wisconsin. Unhonored: State's Hull, Justice's Cummings, Navy's Swanson...
...from Rollins, got another last fortnight from Oglethorpe. Secretary Ickes got his third LL. D. this week from Berea. University of Arizona made Secretary of Agriculture Wallace a Doctor of Science last week and Rollins made Secretary Roper a Doctor of Humane Letters. Alabama College (Montevallo) gave Secretary Swanson from remaining the Cabinet's only non-doctor was new Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau...
...Atlantic. To most laymen, Naval Policy is a secret code formulated by a few admirals in Washington who spend their days hankering for war. There is nothing mysterious or alarming about U. S. Naval Policy. Any citizen, if he likes, can have a copy of it, signed by Secretary Swanson, and printed in bold type on a single sheet of paper 2 ft. square to hang on his wall. Gist: ''Naval policy is the system of principles, and the general terms of their application, governing the development, organization, maintenance, training and operation of a navy. It is based...
Last week Secretary Swanson examined the Cadmus work for himself. Scratching his chin and tilting his head he remarked: "Right artistic but not true to the Navy." Thereupon Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry Latrobe Roosevelt whisked The Fleet's In away to his Q Street home. "It's out of sight," said he, "and will continue to be out of sight...