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...term of office (say, on Christmas or New Year's day or even on Thanksgiving) so as to permit the Vice President to become President of the United States for the interim until January 20-when the newly-elected President would take office under Amendment XX to the Constitution...
...FLEET PROBLEM XX, FEB. 2O ISSUE, SHOWING "DON JUAN, PUERTO RICO" SWELL BUT WE SPELL IT SAN JUAN. CORDIALLY INVITE ALL AMERICAN GIRLS COME DOWN SEE US SOMETIME...
Basic set-up of the Navy's Problem XX was for a "White" attacking force under Admiral Edward C. Kalbfus to try from mid-Atlantic to penetrate a "Black" defense under Vice Admiral Adolphus Andrews. The attackers might seek to gain a military foothold anywhere in the Americas from Venezuela's eastern boundary to Norfolk, Va. Or they might seek to break through one of the many entrances to the Caribbean and attack the Panama Canal. Belief that the attackers' air forces, at least, had broken through the defense cordon grew when 150 to 175 planes swarmed...
...week in the Atlantic and Caribbean (see map) are 134 ships, 600 planes, 3,210 officers and 49,445 men of the U. S. Navy. For the purposes of diplomacy, the U. S. Navy's first full maneuvers in the Atlantic since 1934 are described as Fleet Problem XX...
...Problem XX is more than a fame. Never before, not even when the Navy cavorted in Japan's back yard last year, has the U. S. so frankly marshaled its sea power to deal with specific foes (Germany, Italy) as they would line up in a specific situation. For the armed forces of the U. S. now have something to do besides wait for a war to be declared. To forestall that event, Commander-in-Chief Franklin Roosevelt has put ships and planes to use in world politics-the "power politics" that up to now has been played only...