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...providing $963,797,478 to start building two 45,000-ton battleships, two cruisers, one aircraft carrier, eight destroyers, six submarines, five auxiliary vessels, to complete four cruisers, seven destroyers, seven submarines, and to purchase 471 airplanes. Before the Senate Naval Committee came Admiral Harold H. ("Betty") Stark to ask that another bill, authorizing an 11%, $655,000,000 naval expansion, be made a 25%, $3,486,000,000 expansion; and that an immediate $45,400,000 be voted in order to begin work at once. But ships still to be laid down will probably not be finished before...
...Senate was about to take up a $963,799,478 Naval Appropriation Bill, a further authorization for $655,000,000 in future appropriations; 2) that Mr. Speers's story did Navy friends' cause no harm in Congress. Chief of Naval Operations Harold R. Stark knocked this comforting belief to smithereens. He solemnly announced that the U. S. has "practically no reliable information" about secretive Japan's naval program, then informed a Senate committee that Japan reportedly is building not four but eight new battleships. His moral: the U. S. had best hurry along its eight battleships...
...City; jars and jars of Texas honey; four boxes of homemade fudge wrapped in red, white & blue by the Pelahatchee, Miss, postmistress. Six Governors (Kentucky's Keen Johnson, Georgia's Eurith D. Rivers, Mississippi's Paul Johnson, Tennessee's Prentice Cooper, Missouri's Lloyd Stark, Indiana's Clifford Townsend), one Governor-elect (Louisiana's Sam Jones) and four Texas ex-Governors (Pat Neff, Dan Moody, William Hobby and Jim Ferguson) greeted...
...Jefferson City, where Roman-nosed Governor Lloyd Crow Stark greeted him; to Fulton for a talk at Westminster College, answered questions until midnight, then a 65-mile drive to Macon. Mo. (cold turkey, ham, salad), chatted until 3 a.m. with a dozen politicians...
...Neely wants to be Governor. To win, they must break down the powerful Kump-Holt-Hogg* Statehouse machine. They hit the sawdust trail for Mr. Hatch. In his ranks were also Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark, poignantly interested in crippling the State organization of Governor Lloyd Crow Stark; Georgia's George & Russell, who want to clip the wings of Governor E. D. Rivers...