Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President last week exercised his first veto on any bill passed by the present Congress - a bill directing him to reappoint one Captain Chester A. Roth well, who was discharged from the Engineering Corps of the Army because twelve Generals on an Efficiency Board had found that the Captain was "lacking in attention to duty, initiative and administrative ability, careless, indifferent and failing to take advantage of his opportunities for employment." The President decided to uphold the Efficiency Board, since he had no reason for reversing...
...young man sells "bracing air at $2 a sniff," and most of the comedy occurs on a voyage of the first shipload of patients to the haven. They are set upon by rum-runners, whom the young man defeats by dressing as a girl and touching the hard captain's heart. Claire Windsor, as the young man's despairing (of poverty) wife, gives a stiff and incomplete performance. Mr. Moore is pretty funny here and there...
...untremulous way through the foggy May firmament, the silver bulk appeared at times to be perilously near the slim shafts of downtown skyscrapers. Assembled at their posts were 14 survivors of last summer's Shenandoah disaster. Not least among these was the stern-visaged commander. He succeeds Captain George W. Steele Jr., who returns to the more substantial water...
...University golfers also had little trouble downing Amherst at Weston, Cole of Harvard being the only Crimson's player to lose. Captain Stimpson turned in a 75, which is only our above par for the course...
...result of a meeting of the lacrosse team, held immediately after the close of the Yale game, Merrill Winslow Linn '27, of Lewisburg, Pa., was elected captain of the team for next year. At the same time, Madison Sayles '27 of Belmont, was awarded the smaller of the Morgan Lacrosse Cups, and won the right to have his name engraved on the other...