Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Waging War. When they stop to think of it, Navy men point back at Business as the real instigator of war. Not the Navy Department, with its warship plans, but the Department of Commerce, complying with U. S. manufacturers' demands for new foreign markets, lays the basis for international contention...
More than with most sailors, the Navy is a family matter with Admiral Hughes. He married a daughter of famed Charles E. Clark who commanded the Oregon on its dash around Cape Horn during the Spanish War. Another daughter of Hero Clark wedded Samuel Shelburne Robison, who, like Secretary Wilbur, was graduated at Annapolis four years after Admiral Hughes, in the class of 1888. In 1925, Admiral Hughes succeeded his comrade and friend, now Rear Admiral Robison, as Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Battle Fleet...
...Coal and Iron Police," badged and deputized by the Governor of Pennsylvania; uniformed, armed and paid by the operators. The Coal and Iron Police were first formed during the Civil War, to guard Northern mines from Southern raiders. During the present "civil war," some 4,000 Coal and Iron Police have been operating...
This drew from Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain a brisk defense of his ministry culminating in the words: "For the British Government war with the United States is unthinkable and the prospect of war with the United States or preparation for war with the United States never has been and never will be the basis of our policy in anything...
Humble fishing smacks and rusty tramp steamers last week sailed with the Royal blessing. Centuries of service rendered the Nation in war and peace by commercial ships and fishing fleets were signalized by bringing these vast and wandering squadrons, like other able Empire services, under the honorary wing of the Royal family. The title of Master of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleet was presented to the Prince of Wales...