Word: adamses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Redheaded, assertive Admiral Magruder' had been in eclipse since October, 1927 when, writing in the Saturday Evening Post on "The Navy and Economy," he had charged the Navy with being poorly administered, overofficered. Personally offended, Coolidge Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur decided the articles were in unbecoming...
California's Senator Shortridge called for "human consideration rather than legal technicalities," extenuated the offense on the ground of "patriotism and zeal to serve." Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, who has a son of his own keen on the sea, was understanding. At a signal from him, color...
Harvard University Charles Francis Adams LL.D. Frank Billings Kellogg LL.D. Sergei Koussevitzky, orchestra conductor (Boston Symphony) LL.D. Robert Russa Moton, college principal (Tuskegee Institute) A.M. Henry Norris Russell, Princeton astronomer D.Sc.
To this conference went many a famed church-unionist and several non-unionists. Among famed churchmen present were Dr. Joseph Ross Stevenson. President of Princeton Theological Seminary; Yale's Divinity Dean Luther Allan Weigle; Dr. Samuel McCrea Cavert, General Secretary of the Federal Council of Churches; Dr. Daniel Alfred...
Charles Francis Adams: Good at everything. Extraordinary manager of our finances, whom the heritage of public service has drawn to the charge of the country's navy.