Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Formulate a tax reduction, and a flood relief, and a naval building program...
Back from a naval mission to Brazil came Rear Admiral Newton Alexander McCully, U. S. N. Reporters were not surprised to find him accompanied by six children, none of whose faces bore the slightest resemblance to the face of Admiral McCully...
Since the War he has commanded the New York, been Governor of the Virgin Islands, Director of Naval Intelligence at Washington. Two years ago he was appointed again to an active service post as Commander of the Yangtze Patrol Force...
...Admiral Hough is one of the most distinguished of U. S. naval officers. Having been graduated from the Naval Academy in 1891, he saw active service seven years later in the Spanish-American War. Subsequently, he was appointed to many ships and was steadily promoted through all grades to his present rank. From 1911 to 1914 he was Naval Attache at Paris, and at St. Petersburg, (now Leningrad...
...outbreak of the World War he was a Commander on the Wilmington. The following year he was assigned to duty at the Naval Academy, which post he left in 1918 to become District Commander at Brest, France. Later the same year he was sent as a U. S. representative to the Prisoner of War Conference at Berne, Switzerland...