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Admiral Edward Walter Eberle, Chief of Naval Operations, has his post aboard no ship but at a desk in the Navy Department, for after Edwin Denby and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., he is the highest officer of the Navy Department, and its executive in practical operations. It is his business to control the operations of the fleet, prepare its plans for war. He is ex-officio Chairman of the General Board and ranking member for the Navy (coordinate with the Chief of Staff of the Army, General Pershing) on the Joint Board. To his desk will come the report...
Admiral Eberle knows full well what the loss of the Panama Canal in war-time would mean. In 1898 he was aboard the Oregon on her famous run around the Horn to join Admiral Sampson against the Spanish fleet at Santiago, Cuba. Since then he has been twice around the world in the line of duty: once with the Atlantic Fleet on its circumnavigation in 1908, again in command of the gunboat Wheeling. Six months ago he was appointed Chief of Naval Operations. Now the umpires come to him with the verdict: "The Canal is wrecked; the fleet is wrecked?...
...Ellis Island: A man of German birth, resident of the U. S. and possessor of his first citizenship papers, decided to import his wife and five children from Germany. They came. The five offspring were admitted as Germans. The mother was denied entrance because she had been born aboard a Dutch ship in the port of Antwerp, and the Dutch quota for 1923-1924 was exhausted. Perforce the mother retired to troubled Europe. But she left the children in this country, in the motherless care of a father, because at some future time when she returns to America...
...Coolidges took their weekly cruise aboard the Mayflower. Their guests included several progressives in Congress: Senator and Mrs. Frazier of North Dakota, Representative and Mrs. Dickinson of Iowa, Representative Graham of Illinois. Others of the party were Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Senator McKinley of Illinois, Senator Spencer of Missouri, former Senator and Mrs. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns...
...Coolidges took a six-hour cruise on the Potomac aboard the Mayflower. The guests included Secretary and Mrs. Denby, Assistant Postmaster General Bartlett and Mrs. Bartlett, former Senator and Mrs. McCumber, Representative Kahn of California and Mrs. Kahn, Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Director of the Budget and Mrs. Lord, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns...