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...Farley appointment of last week: Henry Clay Swanson, 62, onetime grocer, brother of the Secretary of the Navy, to be postmaster of Danville. Va.. on whose Main Street he lives. The distinguished Secretary brother wangled, when a Senator, a new Danville post office, now under construction...
Secretary of the Navy Swanson, just back from a two-month trip to the Pacific Coast, emerged from a Cabinet meeting one day last week and, narrowing his sharp old eyes, summoned the Press. The President, said he, was thinking of moving the Battle Force from the Pacific to the Atlantic next year. Why? "Well, the fleet ought to know both oceans and both coasts...
...retorted the Navy's chief drawing himself up importantly. "I'm sailing this afternoon on the Indianapolis." "When do you get there?" "Friday. " "What part of Cuba are you going to?" Havana - direct to Havana." "Have you special instructions from the President?" "No special instructions," and Secretary Swanson marched off to pack his bags. Within an hour big black headlines blazoned to the country the news that President Roosevelt was rushing his Secretary of the Navy to the heart of the Cuban crisis, presumably to command the U. S. naval demonstration already under way off Havana. Not stopping...
...Indianapolis was hardly out in deep water before its wireless began to crackle irritably with messages from Washington. The President was seriously annoyed by Secretary Swanson's impromptu sound-off on the White House steps. The Navy's chief well knew there was no connection between his cruise to the Pacific and the Cuban crisis. He ceased his happy strutting long enough to radio a public message to his Washington office : "A wholly erroneous interpretation has been given to my trip. This trip to the west Coast was planned, as every one knows, a month ago. ... I told...
...together: Cuban fear of U. S. intervention. Early in the week Commissioner Carbo had declared that "the presence of U. S. battleships in Cuban waters does not mean a threat to Cuban sovereignty.'' But when the U. S. S. Indianapolis carried U. S. Secretary of the Navy Swanson into Havana Harbor, an unknown Cuban fired a pistol at it. And last week the great, grey battleship Mississippi was steaming slowly back & forth off Morro Castle. President Grau San Martin changed the new government's tune. The streets suddenly blossomed with banners: "Down With Yanqui Imperialism!" Col. Batista...