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...Norman II. Davis, American ambassador-at-large, and Admiral William H. Standley, chief of naval operations will sail for London on October 10 to engage in naval conversations with Great Britain and Japan, preliminary to next year's world naval conference, the White House announced tonight...
...across Panama, putting his 111 vessels through the canal in the record time of 48 hr. (TIME, May 7). Climax to the maneuvers was Exercise M, a problem whose stake was control of the Caribbean. From the flagship Pennsylvania, Commander-in-Chief Sellers and grey, bespectacled Admiral William Harrison Standley, Chief of Navy Operations, had watched Vice Admiral Frank Hardeman Brumby of the Scouting Force fight it out with Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves of the Battle Force. Admiral Brumby's lighter Grey Fleet was assumed to have the Caribbean under guard. Admiral Reeves's Blue force, with...
After President Roosevelt took office, building of warships began on such a scale as the Navy had never before known in peacetime. When Admiral Standley last week marched briskly in upon the House Appropriations Committee he was able to report 54 ships actually under construction, 22 from regular naval appropriations, 32 more from Public Works money-in all 212,000 new tons of fighting machinery or more than twice the tonnage being built by Britain, six times the tonnage being built by Japan. When Admiral Standley walked out of the committee he had won that body's approval...
...thing to bring the Navy up to scratch but another to keep it there. Therefore Admiral Standley last week paid a second visit to the Capitol to advocate the Vinson bill before the Naval Affairs Committee. That measure calls for 102 new ships (95 destroyers and submarines) at a cost of at least $380,000,000 to replace present ships as they pass the useful age limit. Promptly the committee approved the Vinson bill, sent it to the House for passage this week...
With a second great victory to his credit, Admiral Standley promptly proceeded toward a third. He pointed out that aircraft are just as necessary to a fleet as guns or ammunition, for his new ships he would need 1,184 new airplanes. Promptly the committee approved a bill to increase the Navy's air fleet from 1,000 to 2,184 planes...