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High above the battleship New Mexico still floated the four-starred flag of the CINCUS. And below decks, for the next five days, tall, slow-spoken Admiral James Otto Richardson, Commander in Chief U. S. Fleet, worked at his desk, writing, reading, conferring. At week's end the blue flag came down and the CINCUS, in mufti, went over the side. That day he took a plane for Washington, this week sat down to talk with Secretary of the Navy Frank William Knox...
...Mobile Bay and went ahead, of Schley and his sharpshooting bluejackets at Santiago, of urbane Dewey at Manila ("You may fire when you are ready, Gridley"). It is of scholarly, outspoken Bill Sims and the North Sea patrol, of spectacled, bluff Admiral James Otto Richardson, 1940's CINCUS, whose fleet lies in the Pacific while the Japanese Navy waits-and waits...
Fleet-and, by Navy verdict, the best CINCUS since showy, well-loved Rear Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves...
Admiral Pratt was assistant Chief of the Bureau, and for a period occupied the position of "Cincus," or Commander in Chief of the United States Fleet. He will speak here next month on the naval aspect of the war at a meeting of Faculty members...
...maneuvers suspended, ships and aircraft abandoned their formations to search all night for the bodies of the ten other members of the two ships' seven-man crews. Sadly next morning new CINCUS Claude Charles Bloch ordered the radio operators who were supposed to observe a war-time silence, to break it, announce to Washington and the world the worst airplane disaster in U. S. naval history...