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...inefficient, stupid or untrustworthy lieutenants. Only two of Grant's generals whom Biographer McCormick praises are Sherman and Sheridan: Sherman was a good tactician but a poor fighter; Sheridan was Grant's equal in battle but never commanded a large army. For Burnside, Hancock, Meade, et al., McCormick has little but harsh words: "Strive as he might, Grant could not drive them forward...
...signed by the president and the four members of faculty who formed the entire staff. In this record of the man who was to become the treasurer of the University in the post-Revolutionary period, and who was to have the task of straightening the accounts left by John Hancock whom he succeeded, we find a long list of the rules for Freshmen. The beginner should not wear his hat in the Yard "except it rains, halls, or snows, or be on horseback or have both hands full." Furthermore, he must pull his hat off when passing his tutor...
...Northern State Parkway and an ardent anti-new dealer as their candidate. Young and forceful, Mr. Moses possessed none of the Old Guard characteristics which Mr. Macy bombarded. The Committee stood so high that they defeated Mr. Macy utterly at the pre-convention meeting and named Clarence Hancock as Temporary Chairman who will discuss national issues...
...banking house of Lehman Brothers, which had floated Jewel stock, took command. The late Harold Lehman, nephew of New York's Governor, asked a Wartime friend to take charge of rehabilitation as vice president & treasurer. Resigning from his post in the Bureau of Supplies & Accounts, Commander John Milton Hancock, U. S. N., went to work...
...tall, rugged, affable North Dakotan who spent no little part of his naval career installing accounting systems in Navy bases, John Hancock turned $2,000,000 deficits into profits, used profits to pay off $4,500,000 of debts, made up a capital deficit and generally provided a shining example of what a conscientious banking house can do for an industrial client. In 1924 he became a very active partner in Lehman Brothers, and has since been Jewel's board chairman and a mighty hunter of mountain goats. Several years before that, he picked another onetime Navy officer, Commander Maurice...