ARMAMENT SCANDAL
ACTION OF AMERICAN SHIPBUILDERS MUCH MONEY EXPENDED (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 9.5 a.m. WASHINGTON, Friday. At the Senate Committee’s inquiry into the activities of certain shipbuilding corporations at the 1927 Gen eva Naval Conference, Mr. Clinton L. Barbo, president of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, testified that American shipbuilders had spent £28.600 in seeking the passage by Congress of the Jones-White Merchant Marine Act of 1928, under which the United States Shipping Board’s fleet was sold. Mr. Barbo said William Schearer was paid about £9,356 in all by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, the Newport News Shipbuilding Corporation and the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation. He said Schearer had not been authorised to get into the cruiser fight at Geneva. He asserted that the shipbuilding companies now employed Frank Lord as their representative at Washington, to keep them informed, run errands, and get facts which are not carried by the Press, but he insisted that Lord had no authority to ! interfere with legislation.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 774, 21 September 1929, Page 11
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165ARMAMENT SCANDAL Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 774, 21 September 1929, Page 11
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