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Leaving the state of the Army to Major-General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, who reported conventionally that it was good, and the state of the air to Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison, who reported energetically that it was good and getting better, Secretary of War Davis devoted a major portion of his annual report to the state of the Philippine Islands, which the War Department governs. So thoroughly did Secretary Davis cover this subject that it seemed he must long have been girding himself to defend "General Wood's most fitting monument" from being transferred...
...Summerall Incident" closed, President Coolidge admitted that he had recalled Major General Charles Pelot Summerall from the West to have him explain his reported remarks about the "disgrace" of Army housing (TIME, Oct. 24); announced that General Summerall's disavowal of the remarks was accepted. The President talked Army budget matters with General Summerall...
...Senator Carter Glass's attack on the State Department's foreign loan policy called forth a statement by the President (see p. 9); and Major General Charles Pelot Summerall's remarks on Army housing called forth another statement, though President Coolidge avoided taking open issue with his Chief of Staff...
...Navy Department's "Magruder" was plain-spoken Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder who commands only the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The War Department's "Magruder" was really a "Super-Magruder" because he was Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, and topmost soldier of them all. Touring the West to inspect Army stations, General Summerall last week stood up before the San Diego (Calif.) Chamber of Commerce and said: "The housing situation of the Army is a disgrace! Men are living in quarters at Camp Hearn like workers in a logging camp. The same condition prevails at other...
Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, U. S. Army...