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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 of man, was on hand, quick of eye and springy of step, hearty and good natured in spite of being a grizzled veteran past 60. He was personally attractive, impulsive, brave and sure of himself. The Court found him guilty of "vacillation, dilatoriness and lack of enterprise," and declared that...
...States would have been in grave danger. He was obstinate and up to a certain point determined, but he was not a fighting man and he never could have led..an army or controlled those who would have led it for him, as was done by a very inferior type of man of the Third Napoleon. When it came to actual conflict he lacked nerve and daring, although with his temperament I doubt if he lacked the will...
Little Annie Rooney. Mary Pickford, after several seasons as a great lady, has once more returned to short skirts and wistfulness of the type that made her famous. After competing with Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson and the rest for the honor of being America's fiancee, she returns to the role of America's sweetheart. She plays Policeman Rooney's daughter; throws tomatoes and has her bare knees scratched. Her best loved young man is nearly killed by a bullet and saved by a blood transfusion. Miss Pickford looks as young and lovely as ever...
Bernard Shaw penned the above statement - plunged straightway into a letter to the London Times wherein he scored the General Medical Council of England* as "a trade union of the worst type-namely, a type in which entry into the trade and the right to remain in it are at the mercy of the union...
...this the type of sport the grumblers want of Harvard...