The CCC with the Navy

By Captain C. M. Austin, U. S. Navy
June 1935
Contrary to the general service impression, it has not always been a case of the Navy with the CCC. In some instances at least, the reverse is true, for the ...

Service Opinion Upon Promotion By Selection

By Admiral William S. Sims, U. S. Navy (Retired)
June 1935
During the latter part of June, 1934, there were mailed to 1,001 naval officers reprints of an article of mine, entitled “ Promotion By Selection ,” from the June issue ...

Old Glory on Wake Island

June 1935
*From Twice-A-Week Picayune, New Orleans, May 1899. This article was sent in by Commander Philip Seymour, U. S. Navy. Commander E. D. Taussig of the United States gunboat Benning­ton describes ...

Planning and Estimating at Navy Yards

By Captain L. S. Border (C. C.), U. S. Navy
June 1935
An efficient navy yard must have a properly organized planning and estimating section. This implies adequate personnel of proper qualifications, well trained. It is evident that the number, qualifications, and ...

Safe Stems for Ships

By Lieutenant Commander T. W. Sheridan, U. S. Naval Reserve
June 1935
Just before the World War started there was a movement under way to bring about an international agree­ment to change the dangerous shape of merchant ships’ stems as it was ...

Selection, Security, And Morale

By Lieutenant Commander Robert B. Carney, U. S. Navy
June 1935
The congestion and humps which have threatened promotion and morale in the service have constituted a problem of the first magnitude for many years. Promotion by seniority guaranteed a great ...

Preble and the Philadelphia

By Commander Arthur Bainbridge Hoff, U. S. Navy (Retired)
June 1935
In those brilliant early years of our young Navy, when the Barbary corsairs had been brought to terms, and when seamen were either battling the elements or battling the enemies ...

Security Of National Interests

By Rear Admiral John W. Greenslade, U. S. Navy
June 1935
Failure of the league.—Impartial critics of the League of Nations have pointed out that it was doomed to failure because it made no provision for growth and development of peoples ...

Flying Around A Waterspout

By Lieutenant Crutchfield Adair, U. S. Navy
June 1935
When one witnesses a waterspout, he carries away the feeling that he has seen a real freak of nature; and he has. Waterspouts have a supernatural appearance and there is ...

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