The reverberating "Magruder incident" closed peacefully last week, or almost closed. Various congressmen rumbled around Washington about an investigation of the charges brought last fortnight by Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder, who wrote in the Saturday Evening Post that the Navy is over-officered, bound with expensive red tape and burdened with idle ships and shipyards [TIME, Oct. 3]. But officialdom was quiet. Admiral Magruder was not haled up for discipline.
Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur refuted specific Magruder statements now and then as his subordinates furnished him with research. President Coolidge announced that he thought lots of officers and some...
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