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When the U. S. Fleet returns shortly from Australia waters, one of the Navy Department's periodic shakeups, in which officers are alternated between fleet and shore service, will place the two former midshipmen in ranking command of the U. S. Naval forces afloat, Admiral Samuel S. Robison, sturdy, stocky determined, dark complex-loned with iron gray hair and a close cropped mustache, will become Commander in Chief of the U. S. Fleet, succeeding Admiral Coontz. And Admiral Charles F. Hughes, "huge friendly and dynamic," ruddy-complexioned and bushily mustached, will assume the second ranking command-that...
...same day news was flashed from Washington that upon his return Admiral Coontz will surrender command of the Fleet to Admiral Samuel S. Robinson, and will be assigned as Commandant of the Fifth District Headquarters at Hampton Roads. He will then revert automatically to the rank of Rear Admiral...
...reply for the U. S. sections was delivered by Arthur Judson Brown, who for two generations has given the command to Presbyterian missions to "fling out the banner" that "nations waiting to be born" might "baptize their spirits in its light...
...sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal, dream, when asleep, of the perfect piano. They seat themselves before a suave and sable instrument that is pliant to their will as none that mortal hands have ever fingered; it speaks for them with a mighty organ voice; notes, at the command of their subconscious will, sing with the pomp of trumpets or the tenderness of fiddles, yet it is no pipe organ that they play, but a crisp, living, leaping engine of wire strings and felted hammers. Such a dream-piano may have been made incarnate by InventorJohn Hays Hammond Jr., "smart...
Then Teacher sits down. Another sharp command. Into their places shoot the children, sit erect, silent, stock still- still and silent as heaving, panting children can sit. The panting and the heaving cease. Silence settles down over the room like a soft rain. Nerves relax. Ebulliency is gone. Repose remains. Then back to lessons again...