Word: toed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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On the day the V-5 took the water, 42 naval officers were graduated from the Navy's special submarine school at New London, Conn., to help man this growing arm of national defense.
These naval activities, of course, in no wise reduced the determination of Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson and other U. S. delegates to the London Naval Conference to talk Japan's delegates out of their demands for large submarine tonnage. With nice new bags and trunks ceremoniously packed...
The Japanese naval demands: 1) 70% of the largest auxiliary fleet allowed the U. S. or Britain; 2) a flexible interchange of auxiliary tonnage between categories; 3) retention of their full submarine strength of 71 ships (78,497 tons). Like good diplomats, they were ready to give in on demands...
"There was much speculation in Japanese . . . circles as to the reason for his [Adams'] absence. . . . A second conference is to be held, but the name of the Secretary of the Navy is not on the list. . . The public would be vastly reassured if the Secretary of the Navy should...
Wrathful indeed was Statesman Stimson at the Post. Turning to the resounding publicity board of his own department, he issued a formal statement in which he explained that Secretary Adams' absence was due to a courteous limitation of the size of the Woodley meeting, that Secretary Adams had voluntarily...