Word: rear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fact has ousted fancy from the legend of "Old Ironsides," and the Widener Library proved to be the means of authentication, according to an article in the current number of the Golden Book Magazine by Rear-Admiral Eliot Snow of the United States Navy...
...Rear Admiral, in his mad will-o wisp game with this long-dead Smith, resorted to various attempts to find the latter's book. After advertising without result in the query columns of the Boston Evening Transcript, he learned that the Library of Congress had no record of it, nor had the British Museum or any of the public libraries of the United States...
Ranks would not matter in themselves. The point is that they necessitate large staffs-bandsmen, servants, clerks, radio and signal men, orderlies, typists and typewriters. "Yeomen," wrote Rear Admiral Magruder, "are the men who do the typing and paper work -that is, the red tape." Hazy distribution of authority and inactive navy yards were two more subjects discussed. Then some more figures for 1926: "To operate, maintain, repair and supply the vessels of the fleet cost $163,000,000. And to administer this sum cost nearly half as much, or $77,500,000. ". . . For every dollar expended for repairs...
...Rear Admiral Magruder had filed no copy of "The Navy and Economy" with Secretary Wilbur. So newspapers, which dearly love a fight, had resort to "Sic 'em" headlines. They blared: "ADMIRAL'S BLAST DISTURBS WILBUR . . . ASSAILS NAVY COSTS . . . ONSLAUGHT . . . MAY BRING DISCIPLINARY MOVE . . . UNDER FIRE FROM OFFICIALS...
They interviewed Rear Admiral Magruder in Philadelphia, implying that Secretary Wilbur was about to do something drastic. Egged on, Rear Admiral Magruder said: "I am an Admiral of the upper half, and I got there without the influence of politics, petticoats or anything but merit. I am grateful to the United States Navy for taking me, a poor country boy, and making me an Admiral, but I am not going to be muzzled...