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...proposed one-year naval building truce, by suspending all construction (87,600 tons), would serve only to "widen the gap" between the U.S. fleet and other powers...
...environment did widen. First it was the State of Ohio when he went to the Legislature. Something had to be done about aviation, now a public matter. So David Ingalls took once more to the air. The State adopted his aviation code in one magnificent sweep. Next, it was the Nation, when, in the first fortnight of the Hoover Administration he was called to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. More exactly, this new environment is the Nation's Navy, for David Ingalls does not scatter his attention. All the force of his irresistible enthusiasm is given...
Significance. These dismissals, to insurgent Republicans and Democrats, seemed to dramatize and personalize their favorite issue of Power, to build it up for presidential 1932. They felt that the oustings were inspired by President Hoover, and served as a large and concrete wedge to widen the gap between the Administration and the Progressives (see col. 3). They recalled that the dismissal of Forester Gifford Pinchot in 1910 which helped split the G. O. P. and defeat William Howard Taft in 1912 was just such an incident at the time...
...Ewald case, public opinion demanded that Governor Roosevelt start an inquiry of his own. So an investigation got under way headed by Republican Attorney General Hamilton Ward of Buffalo, who also wanted to be governor. He named Hiram C. Todd as his special prosecutor. Prosecutor Todd wished to widen his inquiry so that it would cover all New York court officers but found that the State treasury would issue appropriation only for the Ewald case. To assist in the broader investigation, the Citizen's Union raised $13,000. By last week this fund had been virtually exhausted. And Attorney...
Supreme Court. In an inconclusive decision in the Chicago telephone rate case which sent that seven-year-old controversy back to a lower Federal court for settlement, corporation lawyers thought they detected a significant inclination on the part of the High Court to widen the regulatory powers of State agencies over local utilities doing an interstate business...