Word: warboats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote "Ja!" Portentously an awful rumor spread that President von Hindenburg was threatening to resign if the Reichstag went "Nein!" Old Paul von Hindenburg wanted a hearty "Ja!" because that would mean the appropriation of 85,000,000 gold marks ($20,000,000) to complete Cruiser A, the first warboat of 10,000 tons maximum size which Germany is permitted to build under the Treaty of Versailles. Fierce opposition to the measure came from the largest German party, Socialist, which is unalterably Pacifist. Therefore the chancellor of Germany, Socialist Müller, dared not vote for Cruiser...
Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh was observed to treat a certain Correspondent Carlisle MacDonald with less coldness than anyone else who covered him in Paris. Therefore Manhattan's Times sent suave Scot MacDonald from France to the U. S. on the same warboat that carried the Colonel home. Last week Mr. MacDonald, long since back in Paris, was strolling down the Rue de la Paix when the biggest French story of the week broke before his eyes...
...Shanghai "navy scare" seemed to be based on a purely general remark let fall by Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, when he christened, last week, the tiny new warboat Sienning, Chiang said...
...Williams, who was murdered at Nanking on March 24 by a Chinese soldier during the outrageous attack on foreigners deliberately undertaken by the so-called Nationalist government. _ You state: "She spoke with more animation of the firing, in reprisal, upon Nanking by a British and a U. S. warboat...
...China, making personal investigations on the spot. Senator Hiram Bingham, Connecticut Republican, pushed his tour of China (TIME, May 9) to the extreme of venturing 400 miles up the great river Yangtze, last week into the very heart of "Chinese Communist" territory. Since he traveled on a U. S. warboat, the Senator was effusively greeted at Hankow by the "Communist" Foreign Minister Eugene Chen (TIME, Jan. 24). Later Mr. Bingham pushed on to Ichang, in the extreme upper reaches of the Yangtze...