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...York City, financiers buzzed excitedly over a luncheon given by Vice President Reeve Schley of the Chase National Bank to the representatives of the Ail-American Textile Syndicate and the Amtorg Trading Corporation, the latter being the Russian Soviet Union's agency...
...Russia the news of the luncheon was construed in the Soviet press to constitute "the first outspoken recognition by American finance and industry of the importance of Soviet trade and the stability of the Soviet government." When New York reporters waylaid poor Mr. Schley and cross-examined him as to the accuracy of this pronouncement, he ascribed the luncheon to social motives. He in fact owed the Soviets a luncheon, since last summer they entertained him in Russia...
...Burr for treason was perhaps of equal national interest, but it was not a military trial but a trial before the U. S. Circuit Court at Richmond. The nearest parallel to the Mitchell trial is probably the Court of Inquiry in 1901 into the conduct of Commodore Winfield Scott Schley in the Spanish-American...
...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...
Twosomes.--Baker (H) lost to Schley, 6 and 5; Jones (H) defeated Ballard, 1 up; Eaton (H) defeated Clement, 2 up; Fleming (H) defeated Harris, 5 and 4; Williams (H) defeated Johnson, 1 up; Clough (H) defeated Conant...