Word: granted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plymouth--"The Whole Town's Talking". The second and last week of Grant Mitchell...
...fights, and, although the authorities did not relax the customary discipline, cadets agitated by State feeling cared little for punishment or demerits received,. Seceding Southern States took with them their sons who, once loyal Unionists were soon to tear at the throats of their Northern Classmates. The names of Grant, Jackson, Stuart, and Lee will live long in the annals of war and of fame. But the "Lost Cause" was indeed lost and after 1865 life at West Point returned somewhat to normal...
...when the Mexican War broke out, about thirteen hundred men had graduated from the Academy, many of whom rendered conspicuous services to their country. Lee, Bragg, Sherman, Hooker, Grant, and McCellan are but a few of the West Point names distinguish-in the war. Winnfield Scott, who captured Mexico City, wrote in 1860 this famous statement, which every Plebe knows by heart: "I give it as fixed opinion, that but for our graduated cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats...
Plymouth--"The Whole Town's Talking". The second and last week of Grant Mitchell...
...Only a very unusual circumstance would induce me to go into the talking pictures," said Grant Mitchell last night, when questioned by a CRIMSON reporter as to whether he would consider leaving the footlights for the microphone...