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Watchdog. William Howard ("Admiral") Gardiner, president of the Navy League of America and volunteer watchdog of the U. S. fleet (TIME, May 12), took to the air with a radio appeal for the postponement until December. He spoke of "rising tides of doubt," insisted the country should have more time in which to digest the pact. Though he professed to be neutral on the treaty itself, Mr. Gardiner's position squared exactly with that of Senator Johnson. There was little doubt that at heart the Navy League would be pleased to see the whole London agreement go by the board...
...professional disapproval against the treaty. In 15 days 23 high naval officers appeared to testify at the call of Senator Johnson and 21 of them could find nothing but fault. In chorus they complained that under the treaty the U. S. would: 1) have to build a cruiser fleet on specifications dictated by Britain; 2) have less than a sporting chance with 6-in. gun cruisers instead of 8-in; 3) be at a serious disadvantage against Japan in defending far Pacific possessions. Such words as "wicked," "detrimental," "unjust," "restrictive," "a mistake," "inferiority" poured forth volubly from naval witnesses against...
Other business friends are General Motors, DuPont de Nemours, International Harvester, John Deere Co., Caterpillar Tractor, Radio Corp. and the U. S. Shipping Board, which sold the Reds a fleet of 25 cargo steamers (TIME, Jan. 27). Banks which sent business-getters to Moscow last year include National City. Chase National, Equitable Trust...
True to the Navy (Paramount). Clara Bow was surrounded by sailors once before, in a silent picture (The Fleet's In), and in several others she has begun her love-making from behind a store counter. True to the Navy conforms to the Bow formula: a love-affair, a misunderstanding, a reunion. The formula depends for its success on quick sequences and energetic physical activity; usually makes fair entertainment; but True to the Navy drags. The dialog is the sort in which effects are concentrated in the word "Yeah" and while Bow gives a good performance Frederic March, who plays...
...Naval Science Cruise this year will be taken on the battleship "Wyoming", the flagship of the United States scouting fleet stationed in the Atlantic. This ship will carry members of the Harvard and Northwestern Naval Science units. The cruise leaves Boston on Saturday, June 21, and will take three weeks, returning about July 10. The ship will stop for three days at Fayal, in the island of Horta, in the Azores...