Both Secretary of War Baker and Secretary of Navy Daniels devoted much time and effort to the problem of providing reasonably normal and wholesome activities in camp for the millions of men who had been removed from their home environment.

the Army, Navy and Air Force, among others, may question Secretary Freeman's claim that the high estate of United States agriculture is the `` strongest deterrent '' to the spread of communism.

* C. I. Hamilton, " Selections from the Phinn Committee of Inquiry of October – November 1853 into the State of the Office of Secretary to the Admiralty, in The Naval Miscellany, volume V, edited by N. A. M. Rodger, ( London: Navy Records Society, London, 1984 ).

The Bronze Star Medal may be awarded by the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Homeland Security with regard to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy, or by such military commanders, or other appropriate officers as the Secretary concerned may designate, to any person who, while serving in any capacity in or with the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Coast Guard of the United States, after 6 December 1941, distinguishes, or has distinguished, himself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving participation in aerial flight —

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger signed an agreement to reinstate Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps ( NROTC ) programs at Columbia for the first time in more than 40 years on May 26, 2011.

The CMC reports directly to the United States Secretary of the Navy and is responsible for ensuring the organization, policy, plans, and programs for the Marine Corps as well as advising the President, the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Council, the Homeland Security Council, and the Secretary of the Navy on matters involving the Marine Corps.

Under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy, the CMC designates Marine personnel and resources to the commanders of Unified Combatant Commands.

" The Commandant is directly responsible to the Secretary of the Navy for the total performance of the Marine Corps.

The responsibilities of the Commandant are outlined in Title 10, Section 5043 the United States Code and is " Subject to the authority, direction, and control of the Secretary of the Navy ".

As stated in the U. S. Code, the Commandant shall preside over the Headquarters, Marine Corps, transmit the plans and recommendations of the Headquarters, Marine Corps, to the Secretary and advise the Secretary with regard to such plans and recommendations, after approval of the plans or recommendations of the Headquarters, Marine Corps, by the Secretary, act as the agent of the Secretary in carrying them into effect, exercise supervision, consistent with the authority assigned to commanders of unified or specified combatant commands under chapter 6 of this title, over such of the members and organizations of the Marine Corps and the Navy as the Secretary determines, perform the duties prescribed for him by section 171 of this title and other provisions of law and perform such other military duties, not otherwise assigned by law, as are assigned to him by the President, the Secretary of Defense, or the Secretary of the Navy.

The first specific reference to commissioning located in naval records is a letter of November 6, 1863, from Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles to all navy yards and stations.

In May 1861 Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles ordered the Potomac Flotilla reduced to half strength due to cessation of hostilities.

From his prison cell at Florida State Prison, making use of the prison library and writing in pencil on prison stationery, Gideon appealed to the Supreme Court in a suit against the Secretary to the Florida Department of Corrections, H. G.

After Scott retired in October 1861, the Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles, adopted the idea of a decoration to recognize and honor distinguished naval service.

Note that the medallion worn by Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles is engraved with the number " 290 ", the original dockyard numbder for the Alabama.

Although he had orders from ( Union ) Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles to move his ships to Northern ports, he refused to act until April 20, when he gave orders to scuttle the ships in the yard and destroy its facilities.

Intelligence that the Confederates were working to develop an ironclad caused consternation for the Union, but Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles waited for Congress to meet to request permission to consider building armored vessels ; Congress gave this permission on August 3, 1861.

Gideon Welles ( July 1, 1802 – February 11, 1878 ) was the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869.

Gideon Welles ; Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy Publisher: Oxford University Press US, 1973.

A letter to the Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles, dated June 12, 1863 written by McDougal stated, " General opinion is that the government of Japan is on the eve of revolution, the principal object of which is the expulsion of foreigners.

Mallory believed that by attacking the merchant shipping that carried trade to Northern ports he could force his Union counterpart, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, to divert his own small fleet to defend against the raiders.

Dr. Daniel Bourdanné is the current General Secretary, Femi Adeleye and Gideon Yung are the Associate General Secretaries.

This may have been partly due to his open conflict with Gideon Welles, who was the Secretary of the Navy.

U. S. Navy Secretary Gideon Welles reacted to the rumor that Mason and Slidell had escaped from Charleston by ordering Admiral Samuel F. DuPont to dispatch a fast warship to Britain to intercept the Nashville.

Former Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles remarked of the nomination that " It is a wonder that Grant did not pick up some old acquaintance, who was a stage driver or bartender, for the place ," and the political journal The Nation said " Mr Waite stands in the front-rank of second-rank lawyers.

Note: In 1863, John Murray Forbes, served as a ' confidential agent ' of Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Wells, in Paris, France.

The Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles, blamed Du Pont for the highly publicized failure at Charleston.

During the Civil War, however, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles named a young assistant U. S. Attorney in the District of Columbia named Nathaniel Wilson to present the government's case in complicated courts-martial.

* Welles Road — Named for Gideon Welles, third Paymaster General and later Secretary of the Navy.

In August of 1861, Paulding was named by Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles to the Ironclad Board, responsible for approving designs for and construction of ironclasd warships.

Goldsborough continued to hold back his fleet, forcing Lincoln to accept a recommendation by Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles to detach ships under Goldsborough's command and place them under Commodore Charles Wilkes, who as a lieutenant had relieved Goldsborough at the Depot of Charts and Instruments ( see above ), and who would report directly to Welles.

Hoel's courageous and skillful service on this occasion won the praise of Flag-Officer Andrew H. Foote, the thanks of the Navy from Secretary Gideon Welles, and promotion to the rank of Acting Volunteer Lieutenant effective 29 April 1862.

A political cartoon appeared in Harper's Weekly on September 1, 1864 depicting Lincoln on a tightrope, pushing a wheelbarrow and carrying two men on his back-Navy Secretary Gideon Welles and War Secretary Edwin Stanton-while John Bull, Napoleon III, Jefferson Davis, and Generals Grant, Lee and Sherman, among others, looked on.

* 1940 – The United States ' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U. S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Among the political figures targeted by the magazine were former Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles and Arthur H. Vandenberg, Jr., who had briefly served as President Eisenhower's Appointments Secretary.

* Galeazzo Ciano, Diary 1937 – 1943, Preface by Renzo De Felice ( Professor of History University of Rome ) and original introduction by Sumner Welles ( U. S. Under Secretary of State 1937 – 1943 ), translated by Robert L. Miller ( Enigma Books, 2002 ), ISBN 1-929631-02-2

Welles ' strong support of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 made him the logical candidate from New England for Lincoln's cabinet, and in March 1861 Lincoln named Welles his Secretary of the Navy.

Several weeks later, when Secretary of State William H. Seward argued for a blockade of Southern ports, Welles argued vociferously against the action but was eventually overruled by Lincoln.

After Lincoln's assassination Welles was retained by President Andrew Johnson as Secretary of the Navy.

* Sumner Welles, Under Secretary of State under FDR

Secretary Welles recommended that Wilkes had been too old to receive the rank of commodore under the act then governing promotions.

In April 1933, FDR appointed Welles Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, but when a revolution in Cuba against President Gerardo Machado left its government divided and uncertain, he became instead the President's special envoy to Cuba.