 In 1925, the newspaper was purchased by John Callan O'Laughlin, a former Associated Press reporter who served during World War I as a major in the U.S. Army's Quartermaster Corps.He was an intimate of Roosevelt's, having worked as a go-between with the Russians in arranging the Russo-Japanese peaces, and later serving briefly as the president's first assistant secretary of state.O'Laughlin installed himself as editor and publisher, and changed the newspaper's name to the "Army and Navy Journal; The Gazette of the Land, Sea, and Air."