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...confirmed by the Senate, when it meets in December. They recalled that the U. S. Shipping Board had been created in 1916 as a semi-judicial and regulative body. With our entrance into the War it was supplemented by a sort of get-down-to-business department?the Emergency Fleet Corporation, which was to have the direct administration of the Government Merchant Marine but remain subservient to the parent Board...
...Merchant Marine Act 1920) the Emergency Fleet Corporation is still responsible to the Shipping Board. But as a matter of fact, ever since President Coolidge appointed Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, U. S. N., to be Chairman of the Emergency Fleet Corporation (TIME, Jan. 14, 1924), the latter has operated the fleet without little reference to the Shipping Board, its legal superior And Admiral Palmer, "dictator", has commended himself to the President by harkening to the voice of economy. (He has, for example, cut down the fleet from...
...myself had definitely advised you that I could not accept a reappointment if any conditions whatever attached to that reappointment. . . I did not intend to lead you, directly or indirectly, Mr. President, to understand that I would be a party to continuing Mr. Palmer as President of the Fleet Corporation...
...high places: "Whether Mr. Haney is right or wrong in his attitude toward Admiral Palmer, he is palpably and indefensibly wrong in adopting a recalcitrant attitude toward President Coolidge. He should tender his resignation forthwith, and leave the responsibility for directing both the Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet Corporation to the President. If there is one principle that is thoroughly established in this government, it is the principle of the President's responsibility for the conduct of executive affairs...
...Patrol vessels were stationed every 200 miles, a distance entirely too far apart for an experimental flight of this kind with such primitive flying machines as the PN-9s are. Double or triple this number of vessels should have been there. In fact, the whole Pacific fleet should have been placed there, instead joy riding around the Antipodes...