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"You can play with a tomato can on a broomstick, if you think you can win with it," USTA President W.E. "Slew" Hester Jr. said in 1977.
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A son of his, also named John Sidney McCain but known as "Slew," graduated from the Naval Academy in 1906 and began a military life that would eventually supplant the family's long history as cotton barons.
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His lust for heroic foreign intervention is a family tradition, stretching back through McCain's father, John McCain Jr. (a Navy officer, who "rose to [the] rank of Commander in Chief, Pacific Command … from which he prosecuted the Vietnam War") to grandfather, John "Slew" McCain, the four-star admiral who "rode in Teddy Roosevelt's globe-spanning Great White Fleet" [Matt Welch, McCain: The Myth of a Maverick, p. 209, p. 4].
The Myth of McCain's Impeccable National Security Credentials 2008
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His grandfather Admiral John Sidney "Slew" McCain (Annapolis '06) died four days after witnessing the surrender of the Japanese aboard the battleship Missouri.
Nothing Left to Fear Bernstein, Carl 1999
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His grandfather Adm. John Sidney "Slew" McCain earned his four stars commanding a U.S. carrier force in World War II.
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His grandfather Adm. John Sidney "Slew" McCain earned his four stars commanding a U.S. carrier force in World War II.
doggdot.us 2008
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His grandfather Adm. John Sidney "Slew" McCain earned his four stars commanding a U.S. carrier force in World War II.
doggdot.us 2008
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His grandfather Adm. John Sidney "Slew" McCain earned his four stars commanding a U.S. carrier force in World War II.
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Tennis Association President "Slew" Hester Jr. said in 1977.
All that racket: Players have appreciation of wooden past 2007
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Seattle Slew, the 1977 Triple Crown winner, defeated Affirmed, the 1978 Triple Crown winner, by three lengths.
Liz O'Connell: Over the Years, What Happened This Week in Horse Racing? Liz O'Connell 2011
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