Word: commanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senectissimus & Pershing Sirs: In your issue of July 1, p. 10, in reference to Senator Warren's term in the Senate, you state in the last paragraph that "his influence was largely responsible for the selection of his son-in-law, General John Joseph Pershing, to command the A. E. F."* On as important a matter as this, regardless of one's feelings for General Pershing, the records should be kept straight. If you will remember, General Pershing had proven himself to the War Department to be a commander who could follow orders to the very last letter...
...battleship command falls to the author-admiral. The supply vessel Procyon is flagship of the Fleet Base Force at San Pedro, Cal., essentially a training organization. Observers noted that Admiral Magruder's new post is likely to be his last. Aged 62, and only two years remain between him and retirement...
...eclipse since October, 1927 when, writing in the Saturday Evening Post on "The Navy and Economy," he had charged the Navy with being poorly administered, overofficered. Personally offended, Coolidge Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur decided the articles were in unbecoming taste, relieved their author of his command at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Since then Admiral Magruder has been on full pay, but inactive. Last week Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, after conference with the President, ordered him back to duty...
Last week General Freydenberg assembled his staff at the frontier post of Taza. issued an Order of the Day relinquishing his command, announcing his recall to France...
...King Zog, the disturbances that are almost certain to ensue, would be just the excuse needed for official Italian intervention. With Albania Italian territory, and Italy colonizing Dalmatia by the terms of the Treaty of Nettuno (TIME, June 17), Italy would have what she has always wanted, virtual command of the Adriatic. Fearful of Italy's hungry eyes, the Albanian Chancellery loudly announced that King Zog was not dumb. He wheezed, they admitted, but remained intelligible. Further he had reduced his cigaret diet from...