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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grayson's Rank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...Rear Admiral" Cary Travers Grayson is "as eminent a turfman as he is a sailor" [TIME, Nov. 7] he must be one of those "turfmen" who follow the horses around the track with a broom and gocart. If Cary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...Grayson is a sailor at all I'll eat my shirt and his chevrons. You know how he got his fancy rank, don't you? By being picked up by President Wilson, who rode roughshod over the entire Naval Board and jammed his favorite through Congress. About 200* other Navy doctors were ahead of him, in sheer ranking merit, for what was handed to Grayson on a silver platter. At that the great Wilson's puppet was almost set down hard where he belonged by the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...During the Roosevelt and Taft administrations, Dr. Grayson functioned on the Mayflower, White House yacht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Personages | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

Admiral Gary Travers Grayson in Culpeper County, Va., came two gifts-an Arabian stallion and a male Arabian slave. Besides admiring that friend of small nations, Woodrow Wilson, to whom Admiral Grayson was personal physician,* King Husein is well aware that Admiral Grayson is as eminent a turfman as he is a sailor. Grateful, Admiral Grayson stabled the stallion. The slave he returned with his respects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Personages | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

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