Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sampson was absent and Schley was in active command. After the war a move was made to promote Sampson over the head of Schley, who had ranked him for 42 years. That started a controversy in which Schley's adherents asserted that he had been responsible for the success of the campaign, and Sampson's adherents charged that Schley had been negligent, had mismanaged his part of the campaign, had disobeyed orders. In 1901 Schley demanded a Court of Inquiry which was held. Sampson was too ill to appear. But Schley, who was an aggressive type...
...hamstringing the meagre success which Pater Baldwin has achieved in dealing with unemployment, ha wrought upon his hearers' feelings by recounting the suicide of a workless former soldier, and concluded: "He is only one of the many men who, during the last few months, have been sacrificed on the altar of the Government, which is far more concerned with the profits made out of industry than with the lives of its own people...
...opportunity to devote himself brilliantly to affairs of state. His rise to diplomatic prominence cama when Premier Giolitti called upon him, as an authority in Near Eastern affairs, to negotiate the peace treaty which followed the Italo-Turkish War in Tripoli (1911-12). And since then his success as Governor of Tripoli, and later as Finance Minister, has endeared him greatly to the House of Savoy and set him high in Fascist councils. Such was the suave oval-faced Italian, with level brows and a scrubby Van Dyck beard, who set sail with his Countess to talk of Italian debts...
Laurence Schwab '14, who on several occasions since leaving Harvard has come back is Cambridge to assist in the staging of the annual Hasty Pudding plays, will bring to the Plymouth Theatre in Boston Monday night his latest production. "The Firebrand" a comedy which won wide success in New York last season...
...Firebrand" has been acclaimed by a majority of critics as the season's greatest comedy success on Broadway, and one which will appeal particularly to those who can appreciate subtle wit and sophisticated satire. Mr. Schwab, who was active in dramatic work while in college, will be the second Harvard alumnus to come to Boston this fall in the role of producer of director. Hamilton McFadden '21, director of Rafael Sabatini's "Carolinian", now playing at the Hollis Theatre, is the second...