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...anti-de Cespedes revolution in Luba was barely a day old last week when Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus Swanson strode out of the White House and thrust himself into the thick of it. Not since this 71-year-old Virginian took office in the Cabinet had the Washington air been so electric with martial preparations. Fresh from the Presidential presence, he felt the thrill of national excitement as newshawks clustered about him plied him with questions...
Last week Secretary of the Navy Swanson signed contracts for 17 warships to be built in private yards, payment for which will come out of the $238,000,000 public works fund allocated to the Navy (TIME, Aug. 14). He also named some of the new craft as follows: Vincennes (heavy cruiser), Brooklyn, Savannah, Nashville, Philadelphia (light cruisers), Yorktown, Enterprise (aircraft carriers), Porpoise, Pike, Shark, Tarpon (sub-marines...
Between 1923 and 1929, 269 indictments were returned, from which only 27 convictions were obtained. In 1929 Republican John Swanson succeeded "Big Bill" Thompson's Robert Crowe as State's Attorney. He talked loudly about law & order but failed dismally to check industrial violence. Last November Democrat Thomas Courtney, a young two-fisted "reformer," beat State's Attorney Swanson for his job by a thumping majority. The Cook County Democratic machine was not overjoyed at its own man's victory; it feared he would "raise hell with the status quo." That was precisely what...
Last week Secretary of the Navy Swanson announced his intention of spending $77,000,000 to modernize battleships. The money will come from public works appropriations, will be kept separate from the $238,000,000 already allotted for the building of new ships. Most important craft to be modernized: the battleships California, Colorado, Maryland. Tennessee and West Virginia. They will be equipped with hull "blisters" against mines and torpedoes, stronger deck protection against air attack, new boilers, new fighting equipment...
...Archie, that fellow would make a good Assistant Secretary of the Navy." Oden (startled): Why, that was Henry Latrobe Roosevelt you were talking to. Swanson (blankly) : Roosevelt? Who's he? Oden: He was sworn in as your Assistant Secretary of the Navy three days...