Hearings Before the Committee on Naval Affairs of the House of Representatives on Estimates Submitted by the Secretary of the Navy, 1909U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909 - 949 pages |
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Attention is invited to the fact that both blue jackets and marines are recruited with the same degree of care and ... etc. , is in favor of the blue jacket , for a large number of ratings in the navy are filled by skilled laborers .
Attention is invited to the fact that both blue jackets and marines are recruited with the same degree of care and ... etc. , is in favor of the blue jacket , for a large number of ratings in the navy are filled by skilled laborers .
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If you are going to have blue jackets for marines on all war vessels , what is left for the Marine Corps to do ? Secretary NEWBERRY . The duties provided in the executive order . Mr. TALBOTT . Yes ; but that would reduce the number of ...
If you are going to have blue jackets for marines on all war vessels , what is left for the Marine Corps to do ? Secretary NEWBERRY . The duties provided in the executive order . Mr. TALBOTT . Yes ; but that would reduce the number of ...
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What is the difference in the drill of the blue jacket and of the marine on board a man - of - war ? ... Every ship's company has an organized landing force of blue jackets , of which the marines are a separate detachment , if my ...
What is the difference in the drill of the blue jacket and of the marine on board a man - of - war ? ... Every ship's company has an organized landing force of blue jackets , of which the marines are a separate detachment , if my ...
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The marines are detailed as sentries and in connection with honors and ceremonies , and devote more time to infantry and small - arms drills , but their important duties are much the same as those of the blue jackets .
The marines are detailed as sentries and in connection with honors and ceremonies , and devote more time to infantry and small - arms drills , but their important duties are much the same as those of the blue jackets .
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On the other hand , and quite aside from this evil effect on the fighting organization , the absence of the marines added to the contentment and self - respect of the blue jackets , notwithstanding that much additional work had been ...
On the other hand , and quite aside from this evil effect on the fighting organization , the absence of the marines added to the contentment and self - respect of the blue jackets , notwithstanding that much additional work had been ...
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Page 395 - Marine Corps shall be liable to do duty in the forts and garrisons of the United States, on the seacoast, or any other duty on shore, as the President, at his discretion, may direct.
Page 709 - Navy, and by him referred to and approved in his letter to the chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs...
Page 241 - That, for the purpose of further increasing the Naval Establishment of the United States, the President is hereby authorized to have constructed...
Page 225 - That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repairs of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed twenty per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material...
Page 225 - That the Secretary of the Navy shall hereafter report to Congress, at the commencement of each regular session, the number of vessels and their names upon which any repairs or changes are proposed which in any case shall amount to more than two hundred thousand dollars...
Page 337 - June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, shall not exceed sixty thousand dollars; and that the Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, and the amount paid to each.
Page 793 - Corps, without having first received a discharge from the regiment, troop, or company in which he had previously served, shall be removed in all cases where it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War, from such rolls and records, or from other satisfactory testimony, that such re-enlistment was not made for the purpose of securing bounty or other gratuity that he would not have been entitled to had he remained under his original term of enlistment...
Page 74 - Provided, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for chemists...
Page 584 - We are not going to work for 75 cents a day." The CHAIRMAN. They do not have the Wagner Act over there. Mr. HILL. Nor the Taft-Hartley Act, either. Now, we are right where we started. The CHAIRMAN. Does that conclude your statement, Mr. White? Mr. WHITE. That concludes my statement. Thank you. The CHAIRMAN. Are there any questions from members of the committee? Mr. GATHINGS. Mr.
Page 225 - ... per centum of the estimated cost, 'appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material : Provided further, That nothing herein contained...
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| Title | Hearings Before the Committee on Naval Affairs of the House of Representatives on Estimates Submitted by the Secretary of the Navy, 1909 |
| Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909 |
| Original from | the Library of Congress |
| Digitized | 4 Apr 2007 |
| Length | 949 pages |
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