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...Admiral Dewey, President of the Court) and the personality of Schley was not dissimilar to that of Colonel Mitchell. Schley was in command of the Flying Squadron from March to June 1898. Then Sampson was placed over him. But at the battle of Santiago when Cervera's fleet was sunk, Sampson was absent and Schley was in active command. After the war a move was made to promote Sampson over the head of Schley, who had ranked him for 42 years. That started a controversy in which Schley's adherents asserted that he had been responsible...
...Board (TIME, Sept. 28 et seq.), headed by Dwight W. Morrow, concluded its busy hearings last week. The list of men it heard was very long, the more important including: Martin B. Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee; Orville Wright; Admiral S. S. Robison, commanding the U. S. Fleet; Brigadier General Hugh A. Drum, Assistant Chief of Staff; Postmaster General New; General Mason M. Patrick, Chief of the Army Air Service; Rear Admiral William S. Sims, retired; Rear Admiral Robert E. Coontz; Commander Richard E. Byrd just returned from the far north with MacMillan; Grover Loening. High spots...
...cried: "The protection and armament of even our most recent battleships are glaringly inferior to those of our possible enemies. . . . One or more of our ships would suffer humiliating defeat at the hands of an equal number of ene-of the Torpedo-Boat Flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet. In 1916 he became Commander of the Nevada, then...
Concerning the kind of air force that would be most efficient in operation with the fleet, it should be one that belongs to, lives with, and continually trains with the fleet; and it should be trained in peace and controlled in action?that is, in battle?by officers thoroughly indoctrinated in the tactics and strategy of the fleet, as developed by the commander-in-chief. A separate air force would, therefore, be impracticable...
...fight will go to Congress with the President and his supporters standing for unified and independent control of the Board's executive powers by the Emergency Fleet Corporation, with its head responsible to the President; and the Shipping Board standing for control by a board of several members from various geographical sections, independent of the President and responsible to Congress, and with both executive and semi-judicial functions...