Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose to go into detail or to explain motives but in reference to the so-called dispute with a Washington correspondent, Mr. Ray Tucker of the New York York Evening Post [now with Scripps-Howard chain papers] made a statement that I was a disgruntled ex-British Naval Officer. I informed Mr. Tucker that I was not British but had served in the U. S. Navy both during the Spanish War and, according to my resignation signed by Josephus Daniels, in the last War which shows that I gave to the United States Government and Great Britain the free...
Further in your article you infer that I was not present at the Court of Inquiry, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1924. The truth is the Navy Department asked me if I would be a voluntary witness and I proceeded to New York from Washington and was the only witness called. This is a matter of record with the press and all evidence can be found in the Judge Advocate General's office at Washington...
...statement began: "The President said: I have been much interested. . . ." What he was interested in was the disclosure in a New York court that "a naval expert'' had received more than $50,000 from "three naval shipbuilding corporations," for propaganda that he had carried on for a bigger Navy and against naval limitation...
...said Lobbyist Shearer's suit was "without merit." Homer Lenoir Ferguson, president of Newport News Co. which built the cruiser Houston also launched last week, said that his company had never employed "Shearer or any one else to oppose disarmament." Clinton Lloyd Bardo, president of New York Shipbuilding Co. (subsidiary of American Brown Boveri) said the suit was "wholly unsupported by the facts...