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Admiral Robert E. Coontz comes into the command of the combined United States Fleet. In this post he succeeds Admiral Hilary P. Jones, who was in command during the recent maneuvers. The new commander-in-chief is 58 years old. He was born in Mark Twain's home town of Hannibal, Mo. After his graduation from the Naval Academy in 1885 he rose successively through the various ranks, and he was made Admiral...
...Methods of organization are not commendable.- (A) It is an autocratic despotism.- (1) In its excessive military system.- (a) The word of the commander-in-chief is absolute law.- (x) He appoints and recalls without reasons. (y) The entire army is responsible to him.- (b) Officers and privates are absolutely submissive to superiors.- (c) There are many petty personal rules and restrictions. Facts about the Salvation Army, pp. 152-160. North American Review, vol. 159, pp. 700-701.- (2) In its autocratic financial system.- (a) All property is vested in the hands of the commander-in-chief.- (b) No suit...
Thus the names of many illustrious men are connected with the history of the house, and give a peculiar interest to it. But the most famous of all the Americans who visited the house was the Commander-in-chief of the American Rebels in Cambridge, George Washington. During his stay in Cambridge in 1775, at the time when he took command of the Continental army, he slept in Wadsworth House several times before making the Wassail House his permanent headquarters...