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...superintendents of the country's two service academies?Rear-Admiral Samuel Shelburne Robison and Major-General William Ruthven Smith?journeyed to Washington last week. They went separately but in parallel frames of mind. A meeting between them had been quietly suggested by the Commander-in-Chief of the Army & Navy, President Hoover. The dignitaries obeyed the unwritten order but did not greatly relish the matter in hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Smith v. Robison | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...conference Admiral Robison, conciliatory, made three proposals: 1) gradual adoption of the three-year rule by the Military Academy; or 2) a four-year limit for West Point athletes; or 3) alternately playing two years under the West Point rule, two years under the Annapolis rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Smith v. Robison | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...interests have, through a contract which was unpublished till last week, enlisted the aid of the present Republican administration in Kentucky to get a Federal power licence, promising in return a 6,000-acre State park with highways and a bridge. Governor Flem D. Sampson, Congresswoman Langley and Congressman Robison of Kentucky, all Republicans, all testified pro-Insull at the hearing last week. Onetime (1924-27) Governor William Jason Fields of Kentucky, Democrat, was there to decry the Insull scheme as unsightly, the du Pont plan as preservation of natural beauty. The du Pont-Insull fight thus tended to become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABIINET: West Case | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...HONEY, T'AINT SO.-- DEEP RIVER RLUES: The former number the composition of the singer--who incidentally plays his own accompaniment. Willard Robison is one of the finest and most intelligent negro blues singers that we have heard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECORDS | 10/3/1928 | See Source »

STEPHEN FOSTER ALBUM: Why anyone could get enthusiastic about MASSA'S IN THE COLD COLD GROUND and OLD FOLKS AT HOME was rather more than we could see until we heard it. But consider! Directed by Nat Shilkert we have the REVELERS, PAUL ROBISON, the JUBILEE SINGERS, VAUGHN DE LEATH and the VICTOR SALON ORCHESTRA, Gorgeous or chestration-one selection melting into another! A perfectly swell album-at six dollars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECORDS | 9/29/1928 | See Source »

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