Word: midshipman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Orpheum--"Midshipman", continuous...
Orpheum--"Midshipman", continuous...
John Wingate Weeks, 65, formerly of Hornblower & Weeks, bankers and brokers, graduate of Annapolis and two years a midshipman in the U. S. Navy, U. S. Representative for eight years and Senator for six (until defeated in 1918 by David I. Walsh), runner-up for the Republican presidential nomination in 1916, has had four and a half years in the Cabinet. He became Secretary of War in 1921. As such he had the task of putting into effect the provisions of the National Defense Act of 1920, organizing the tripartite defense on which the U. S. relies-Regular Army, National...
...Midshipman. A phoney picture of modern U. S. life has been made at Annapolis with Ramon Novarro in the lead. In the days of its manufacture they thought that President Coolidge would hand the cinema actor his diploma. There was unrest among the politicians, and the doubtful honor fell to Secretary of the Navy Wilbur. The hero starts acting honestly but finally succumbs to the lure of his own uniform and overplays...
Some two score Septembers ago Midshipman Samuel S. Robison and Midshipman Charles P. Hughes were classmates and roommates at the Naval Academy. Graduating, they married sisters. For 40 years their friendship has been unbroken and their careers strikingly parallel. During the war each received a decoration for "exceptionally meritorious services." At present they rank 17 and 18 on the list of Naval officers...