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...obstinate, teetotaling Baptist, veteran of the Spanish-American War, Frank Dees, who bought the telephone company in 1913, is also in business in real estate, restaurants, and has a Shell oil distributorship. A rich man, for his county, he is worth close...
...Temper? Don't fool with nitroglycerin," the Naval Academy's Lucky Bag recorded of Ernie King when he graduated in 1901 (after a mid-school interlude of active duty during the Spanish-American War, on patrol off the Atlantic Coast). That temper subsequently hindered his Navy career, made enemies, often saddened friends who had the utmost faith in his capacities. Testifying before Congressional committeemen, he has been known to fly into ugly, inarticulate rage. Such incidents did him no good, either with Congress or with the Navy command...
Jock, son of a British Army captain in India, was sitting in police headquarters one day in 1898 when four bombs went off: signal that the Spanish-American War had begun. Said Jock: "In a few minutes the phone will ring and it'll be Tarbell telling me that I'm to cover the war." In a few minutes the phone rang. It was Tarbell telling him to cover...
Died. Tom Mix, 60, oldtime cinestar of 370 Western films; instantly, when his car turned over near Florence, Ariz. Pennsylvania-born (but publicized as Western-born, Indian-blooded), he rough-rode with Colonel Theodore Roosevelt through the Spanish-American War, did not go West until he was 26, joined famed Miller Brothers' 101 Ranch in Oklahoma. He soldiered in the Philippines, Boer War, China's Boxer Rebellion, returned to become a Texas ranger. Hired by the old Selig movie company to supply horses, extras, atmosphere while on "location," Mix soon passed to stardom and a pedestal...
...Spanish-American War, Cramp's built most of the famous White Squadron, including Admiral Sampson's flagship, the New York. U. S. men-of-war (many were of original Cramp design) made Cramp's world-famous. One day bearded Tsar Alexander II of Russia summoned equally bearded Charles Cramp to his palace, abruptly asked: "Mr. Cramp, at what school of naval architecture were you educated?" Said Cramp: "Your highness, I was educated in my father's shipyard, and he was educated in his father's shipyard. We founded our own school of naval architecture...