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...watched a gloomy and debilitated flotilla go by. Exercise M. Behind the Fleet, as it steamed toward its New York review, lay long weeks of hard work and intensive maneuver. Ever since it hove out of San Diego April 9. hustling, pink-cheeked Admiral David Foote Sellers, its Commander-in-Chief, had put it through almost continuous strategic and tactical exercises. All the way down the Mexican coast it played at war games. A mimic attack had struck at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. Then, to everyone's surprise, Admiral Sellers had suddenly decided on a forced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: CINCUS | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

...professional ashore), Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet (No. 1 professional afloat) and all the Commander-in-Chief's subordinate flag officers. Commander-in-Chief, Its political officers can make or break the Navy. Its Chief of Operations, who corresponds to the Army's Chief of Staff, can, if he is capable, key the whole service up to a zestful pitch of efficiency. But it often remains for the Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet, as the nation's first seaman, to leave the most memorable stamp on the Navy. Admiral Richard Henry Leigh's regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: CINCUS | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

...design but largely by chance, Admiral Reeves becomes the first air man to command the Fleet. Usually the Battle Force commander, who will be Admiral Brumby when Admiral Reeves moves up, succeeds to the post of Commander-in-Chief. But Admiral Reeves's appointment does demonstrate the new cohesion between the Navy's air force and its sea fleet. During the Hoover Administration naval aviation was constantly being thrust forward as a unique fighting arm by ambitious, energetic David Sinton Ingalls, just as military aviation was being spotlighted by F. Trubee Davison. President Roosevelt abolished these young zealots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: CINCUS | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

...gregarious one, lacking the close fellowship of the ward room of his younger days. As he steamed north last week to salute his President and take command of the fleet, Admiral Reeves had plenty of time for reflection. In his mind's eye, already he could see his red Battle 'Force flag changed for the blue four-starred ensign of the Commander-in-Chief. Already he could anticipate the ceaseless naval communications on onion skin paper addressed not to COMBATFOR. his old title, but to CINCUS, his new one. Already he could hear the crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: CINCUS | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

...resists on the Grand Couronne, saves Nancy. General Sarrail gives battle before Verdun despite orders to retreat. He saves Verdun. I take the offensive [with taxicabsj before Paris while General Headquarters are removed far to the rear at Chatillon. These were actions independent of the will of the commander-in-chief, carried out by commanders of the army corps, but premeditated by General Headquarters-never!" Though

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: At the Marne | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

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