Word: annapolises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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. . . TIME, May 11: "Only some 50% of all Navy officers are Annapolis graduates, [but] Annapolis men dominate most Selection Boards." Someone has been pulling your leg, or the person who quoted you the figures is deliberately creating a false impression.
Sirs: ... I belonged to G.B., or the Green Bowl Club, entering in 1908. It was started by a small group in the class of 1909, in order to rent a room in the town of Annapolis where the members might have a drink and a smoke in comfortable surroundings. There...
As for the serious purpose of G.B., it was announced that we should try to keep bright the honor and traditions of the Navy; urge gentlemen's sons to enter Annapolis; reverence women; and NEVER show official favoritism toward a G.B. on selection boards or otherwise. We lived up...
If General Campbell had not fallen in love and decided on a life ashore after his graduation from Annapolis in 1909, he wouldn't be in the Army now. (That girl, he says, married somebody else. Campbell later married a "much more beautiful woman.") After leaving the Navy he...
Mrs. Mullen's results are rarely as heroic as her efforts. Already on their way to the 1,000-year-distant scrap heap are her portraits of Conductor Eugene Ormandy in chromium; Governor Herbert Lehman in britannia, Nelson Eddy in aluminum, General John Pershing (in stainless steel on the...