While other Navy officials were celebrating Navy Day* with glad hearts, Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder, who so loves the Navy that he dared accuse it of large faults, received a shock. He and most other people had supposed the recent "Magruder Incident" was closed (TIME, Oct. 10). Now came a curt telegram from Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur, detaching Admiral Magruder from his post at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
Among the statements composing the "Magruder Incident," had been the following:
Admiral Magruder: "There...
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