Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Board (TIME, Sept. 28 et seq.), headed by Dwight W. Morrow, concluded its busy hearings last week. The list of men it heard was very long, the more important including: Martin B. Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee; Orville Wright; Admiral S. S. Robison, commanding the U. S. Fleet; Brigadier General Hugh A. Drum, Assistant Chief of Staff; Postmaster General New; General Mason M. Patrick, Chief of the Army Air Service; Rear Admiral William S. Sims, retired; Rear Admiral Robert E. Coontz; Commander Richard E. Byrd just returned from the far north with MacMillan; Grover Loening. High spots...
...cried: "The protection and armament of even our most recent battleships are glaringly inferior to those of our possible enemies. . . . One or more of our ships would suffer humiliating defeat at the hands of an equal number of ene-of the Torpedo-Boat Flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet. In 1916 he became Commander of the Nevada, then...
Concerning the kind of air force that would be most efficient in operation with the fleet, it should be one that belongs to, lives with, and continually trains with the fleet; and it should be trained in peace and controlled in action?that is, in battle?by officers thoroughly indoctrinated in the tactics and strategy of the fleet, as developed by the commander-in-chief. A separate air force would, therefore, be impracticable...
...this end he prevailed on the Board to appoint Admiral Palmer head of the Fleet Corporation and delegate its executive powers to him. The Board did so rather unwillingly. Now it is revolting from this state of affairs and restoring the status quo. This is the cause of the trouble...
...fight will go to Congress with the President and his supporters standing for unified and independent control of the Board's executive powers by the Emergency Fleet Corporation, with its head responsible to the President; and the Shipping Board standing for control by a board of several members from various geographical sections, independent of the President and responsible to Congress, and with both executive and semi-judicial functions...