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Died, Admiral Robert Edward Coontz, 70, onetime (1923-25) Commander-in- Chief of the U. S. Fleet; of heart disease; in Bremerton, Wash...
Cold Chills. Naval Washington was interested in seeing what Admiral Coontz would do and say as V. F. W. leader but political Washington took the Sacramento meeting with comparative equanimity. Of vastly greater concern to it was the national convention next week at Portland, Ore. of V. F. W.'s big young brother, the American Legion. Would the Legion, with its 936,000 members, also plump for immediate payment of the Bonus? It seemed certain to do so. Would wrathful legionaries also succeed in having the convention censure President Hoover for his treatment of the B. E. F? It seemed...
...admiral are: Henry Thomas Mayo, 73, 1916-19 Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet; William Shepherd Benson, 74, Wartime Chief of Naval Operations; William Sowden Sims, 71, 1917-18 commander of U. S. naval forces in European waters; also Hugh Rodman, 71, Hilary Pollard Jones, 66, Robert Edward Coontz, 66. Last U. S. Army officers to receive the rank of a lieutenant general (abolished as a regular Army rank in 1907, temporarily revived during the War), are Maj. Generals Hunter Liggett, 73, and Robert Lee Bullard, 69, Commanding Officers of the 1st and 2nd Armies, A. E. F. Stars...
...Coontz, U. S. N. retired N.A.D...
Decorated. Kenesaw Mountain Landis, National Commissioner of Baseball; with the American Legion Distinguished Service Medal; in Chicago. General John Joseph Pershing and Admiral Robert Edward Coontz are the only other U. S. personages who have received the award...