Word: caribbean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Casually, as though he were stating familiar trivia, he reaffirmed what he said last year: that the U. S. will not stand idly by if any expanding foreign power attempts to muscle in on Canada on the north or-he added last week-France's possessions in the Caribbean and South America...
Inasmuch as the Army was bound to guard the Panama Canal and the vital Caribbean, and the Navy was recommissioning many of her 116 old destroyers and would have to man them for Neutrality patrol, his military measures were not extreme. They did leave the inference that Franklin Roosevelt wanted to be prepared to fight-if not against Naziism, at least for Neutrality. Said Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, explaining why he would rather keep the Atlantic Squadron near home than convoy U. S. refugees from Europe: "Well, you have seen the reports of submarines in the Caribbean...
...buyers, cooks up a long, elaborate girls-&-gagsters vaudeville. With never a lozenge to cool his throat, Wisecracker Milton Berle (Earl Carroll Vanities) serves as tireless, tedious Master of Ceremonies for such acts as Georgie Tapps's neat dancing, Harry Richman's loud singing, and Caribbean Rapture, a writhing dance to voodoo drums that is the best and warmest of Manhattan's tropical chorus spectacles...
...booming new aspect of national defense prompted Franklin Roosevelt in this appointment. Puerto Rico is to become to the Caribbean defense area what the Navy's strongly fortified Pearl Harbor in Hawaii is to the Pacific: the Navy is installing a $9,300,000 submarine and air base there; the Army planning to spend some $20,000,000 on air bases, antiaircraft, garrisons...
...southward to round Cape Horn and the South Americas, where Franklin Roosevelt proposes if need be to meet "force with force." Laid up for treatment, the U.S.S. West Virginia was anchored off Brooklyn Navy Yard, where naval mechanics replaced a 16-inch gun which cracked during maneuvers in the Caribbean last month. Beautifully at rest, the U.S.S. Tennessee rode the Hudson, to be admired by Manhattan gawpers. But it was at Hampton Roads, Va. that the greatest majesty of the Fleet was seen. There battleships, cruisers, destroyers, auxiliaries were harbored in mass while their crews roamed the streets and pubs...