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...Small of the Postum Cereal Co. It has given every evidence of being a proverbial El Dorado to its investors. Major General Davis, soon-to-be Photomaton president, was born in Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 12, 1876, graduated from West Point in 1898, was a first lieutenant during the Spanish-American War. During the World War he was Adjutant General of the A. E. F. In April, 1922, he was made Acting Adjutant General of the U. S. Army and took charge of the planning and administering of the Adjusted Compensation ("Bonus") Act. His organization had to compute the number...
Samuel Wesley Stratton has been President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1923, has specialized in physics and was onetime (1901-23) Director of the National Bureau of Standards. In 1895, while teaching physics at the University of Chicago, he joined the Illinois Naval Militia and during the Spanish-American War was (May-Nov. 1898) Lieutenant Stratton...
...made Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Battle Fleet, succeeding Admiral Samuel S. Robison, his brother-in-law. Admirals Hughes and Robison both married daughters of the late Rear Admiral Charles E. Clark, who commanded the Oregon in its famed dash around Cape Horn in the Spanish-American...
...charge (TIME, July 5), that he fomented a plot last summer to seize the Government. Citizens of the U. S. know that "Butcher" Weyler, 88, has not yet lived down the odium of his bloodthirsty governorship of Cuba (1896-97) - a direct and major cause of the Spanish-American War. From blood, oppression, graft, he wrung a fortune now one of the largest in Spain...
Rough Riders. A Cuban maid pursued by a sinister Spaniard, menacing, evil-minded. . . Another Spaniard in a rowboat, a lighted cigaret waved three times in the night blackness. . . Someone throws a switch and the Maine is blown up. Thus the film records the outbreak of the Spanish-American war. Paramount discovered one Frank Hopper, book-agent, who looks like Theodore Roosevelt. He is shown ordering the mobilization of the fleet during the absence of his superior, Secretary of the Navy Long...