Word: warships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Janeiro. This plan was mutilated, however, by the recent Sao Paulo revolt (TIME, July 14 et seq.), and the chances of the Prince's being assassinated if he landed were thought to 'be so great that President A. da Silva Bernardes requested him to remain upon his warship, where President and Government are to pay him homage...
...spite of unscientific and curiously garbled reports, there appears to be something serious behind Mr. Grindell Mathews statement that his "diabolical rays" will be capable of paralyzing a warship, or destroying an airplane; and the value of his invention needs no stronger recommendation than the simple fact that he offered it to the United States Government "Without encouraging result." It requires an unusual effort to recall any case in which an invention has been offered to the Government with anything but an unercousaging result. But one remembers easily enough the War Department scorn of the airplane, developed in America...
...debate on proposed increase in the British and U.S. Navies John Harris, Liberal, asked the Government: "Will the British Government approach the United States Government concerning the possibility of another naval conference with the object of preventing a new race in the construction of this [cruisers] powerful type of warship...
...details of the proposed visit will be announced until after May 10, on which date the Japanese elections are to be held. It was held in responsible quarters that the Prince will leave Japan in a warship and land at Manhattan, thence across the continent to San Francisco, where he will reëmbark for home...
...opinion was in Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras, that the presence of the U. S. warship would prevent hostilities, which it was thought might have been precipitated by Nicaraguan sympathizers with the insurrectionists...