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Admiral Rodman was mad clear through. The Navy, his Navy, to which he had given 47 years of his life, had been grossly libeled by a young whippersnapper who knew nothing about the service. Later Admiral Rodman penned more than 1,000 indignant words to Secretary of the Navy Swanson. Excerpts...
...another point last week. Recently the Japanese Foreign Office heard that on the minuscule island of Guam, Pacific coaling station for the U. S. Navy. a Japanese citizen had been forced to give up his property. The inquiry was shuffled from the State to the Navy Department where Secretary Swanson explained that under a law passed in 1918. no foreigners may own real estate in Guam. The Japanese had just transferred his property to his daughter-in-law, a U. S. citizen, and now everybody was happy. ¶ Foreign Minister Hirota next turned his attention to Brazil. Japanese emigrants have...
...against Big Business, but only because it interferes with small business, and if the New Deal should ever fall into his hands, God help the New Deal and Heaven save the country." Secretary of State Hull is "our grey-haired Prince of Wales." Secretary of the Navy Swanson's presence in the Cabinet "is, in part, the South's vengeance" for the loss of the Civil...
...display of wine glasses, bowls, plates, bottles, candlesticks, vases; a tableful of heavy molded "architectural" glass for cornices, tiles, columns. Prize of the show was a slender glass fountain by Sydney B. Waugh, 1929 Prix de Rome winner. Other exhibits: a pair of glass slippers made to fit Gloria Swanson; a replica of Steuben's 16 by 8 in. glass casket in which, in Santo Domingo City, repose a few handfuls of ashes that were once supposed to be Christopher Columbus...
With Secretary Ickes. the President put in an hour's work, several minutes' heavy kidding before leaving for the home of Secretary Swanson. But the Navy's old Virginian had a bad cold, was too sick to see his chief...