BIG NAVIES
AMERICAN PROPAGANDA. SHIPBUILDING FIRMS SENATE INVESTIGATION. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association—United Service.) Received September 21, 11 a.m. WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. Giving evidence before the Senate Committee which is investigating the activities of shipbuilding firms at the 1927 Geneva Naval Conference, Mr Clinton L. Barbo, ■ President of the New York Shipbuilding _ Corporation, stated that American shipbuilders had spent 143,000 dollars in an endeavour to have the Jones-White Merchant Marine Act of 1928 passed. Mr Barbo stated that William Shearer, the naval limitation propa gandist, was paid about 46,750 dollars in all by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, the Newport News Shipbuilding Corporation and .the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation. Shearer had not been authorised to get into the cruiser fight at Geneva. Mr Barbo asserted that the shipbuilding companies now employed Mr Frank Lord as their, representative at Washington to keep them informed of the naval situation and get facts not carried by the Press, but witness insisted that Mr Lord had no authority to interfere with legislation.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 251, 21 September 1929, Page 9
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170BIG NAVIES Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 251, 21 September 1929, Page 9
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