Word: talked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Between these extremes, the voice of Rear Admiral Hilary Pollard Jones, retired, who was President Coolidge's spokesman at the Geneva conference, gives what is probably the most honest and accurate expression of the mixed motives behind the present "Big Navy" talk. Testifying last fortnight before the House Committee, he said: "I am frank to say I hope that disarmament progress will make it possible to cut off part of the building program in 1931. . . . If in 1931 we go into that conference* with an authorized program of the strength we are entitled to, I hope we will find...
...possible, almost word for word, to the statement of his predecessor, Rear Admiral Edward Walter Eberle, whose estimates of the year before had been revised only slightly since the Geneva Conference. It was characteristic of Admiral Hughes that he did not think to emphasize that point, to silence talk of "competition," that, when the Committee quizzed him, it was with misleading reluctance that he admitted the British fleet was the ultimate measure of the U. S. fleet...
Even more than when they were schoolboys, the Old Boys (i. e. graduates) of U. S. private schools wonder what their old-time "Heads," "Doctors," "Prexies" and "Kings" talk about when they get together. The newspapers told something of the Princeton meeting-how the trip to England of the studious Kent School crew last summer was discussed; how Bruce Curry of Oberlin College lectured on "The Teaching of the Bible." It was easy to picture President Hibben congratulating Dr. William Mann Irvine of Mercersburg on that academy's new carillon. Exeter men could just see Headmaster Lewis Perry laughing...
...article attempting to break down sales resistance on the part of lukewarm candidates for the ministry was contributed to the North American Review by the Right Reverend James Henry Darlington, of the Episcopal diocese of Harrisburg, Pa. The Christian Century summarized the Bishop's sales-talk as follows...
...aspirant, who is scheduled to give an exhibition bout with a well known heavyweight boxer. Another bout of interest will be that between two members of this year's football team, W. W. Lord '28 and John Parkinson '29. Preceding these exhibitions Dane Egan is scheduled to give a talk on boxing. Details of the spring practice and the coaches engaged will also be announced. J. L. Knox '98 will explain the changes in the football rules. The musical entertainment of the evening is in charge of F. S. Grant...