Word: dewey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Schley "trial" was not a court martial, but only a Court of Inquiry, and it was called at Schley's request, but in other respects it resembled the Mitchell trial: it drew a number of prominent officers as participants (Schley, Sampson and Admiral Dewey, President of the Court) and the personality of Schley was not dissimilar to that of Colonel Mitchell. Schley was in command of the Flying Squadron from March to June 1898. Then Sampson was placed over him. But at the battle of Santiago when Cervera's fleet was sunk, Sampson was absent and Schley...
...Soldiers were on hand to give him military burial, taps were sounded and they lowered him into the earth, into the very spot that a few years ago had been chosen by Secretary of War John Wingate Weeks as his own final resting place,* below the empty tomb of Dewey, across the hill from the Unknown Soldier, on the heights overlooking the city of politics...
...even smaller size and everyone had made a them cheap most folder that convenient kept and them flat durable. . If and the Treasury can't be induced to reduce the size of all bills, it might at least give us $1 and 50c bills of postal sizes. MELVIL DEWEY...
...committee has announced the appointment of Nathaniel Saltonstall Howe '26 of New York, as head usher, and of George Douglass Debevoise '26 of New York, George Dewey Braden '26 of Washington, D. C., and Joseph Carlton McGlone '26 of Natick as assistant head ushers...
...Bailey, C. E. Baldwin Jr., F. L. Barton, Robert Blaney, D. B. Bianchi, J. A. Blais, H. G. Bradlee, S. W. Bridges, Howes Burton, J. L. Carroll Jr., W. R. Chase, S. F. Collier, Richard Collins, L. O. Combs, E. S. Daniell Jr., Lincoln Davis Jr., E. H. Dewey, M. L. Donaldson, Cornelius DuBois, W. S. Duncklee, J. H. Durgin, W. O. Field, Bradley Fisk, H. S. French, C. W. Gillies, D. H. Gordon, J. S. Grimes, J. A. Halsted, C. L. Harding Jr., C. A. Harper, C. J. Henderson, C. W. Hillard, A. M. Hollander, N. S. Howe...