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...Kansas City reunion with his old World War I buddies of Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, Harry S. Truman, in his best give-'em-hell style, frankly took a bow for warding off World War III. "I've been charged with murder and about everything in the book because it was necessary to stop aggression in Korea," declared he. "Still, if I had carried out the recommendations of many, there would have been the most terrible slaughter in the history of the world. I'm taking credit for preventing...
Huby Maguire finished first for the Crimson, taking 48th in the meet. Hal Gerry was 52nd, Emil San Soucie 78th, Bruce Phillips 106th, Marsh Childs 114th, Frank Nahigian 129th, and Bill ngs, seventh Harvard finisher, 153rd...
...next morning at 7 he was breakfasting in the Jefferson's mirror-hung Crystal Room with the particular segment of the 35th closest to his heart: the aging warriors of Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, whom he had commanded in France. That afternoon, while 250,000 people cheered along St. Louis' sun-baked downtown streets, he led them-and the rest of the 35th - in a 16-block parade...
...Rock and joined the boys, Harry Truman was at his handshaking, backslapping best. If there was anything he liked as much as winning elections and playing poker, this was it-the annual reunion of the 35th Division and its famous offspring, Captain Harry's hell-raising Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, A.E.F...
...Kansas City's East Side. As a kid he had gone into the fight game and become king of the amateur lightweights. He was out in Seattle in 1917, when the boys back home wrote him that they were trying to form an all-Catholic battery in the 129th Field Artillery. Tommy hurried home to join. That was the beginning of the wild outfit which earned the early nickname of the "Dizzy...