Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...149th, a unit of the famed-in-War 42nd ("Rainbow") Division, of which General Summerall commanded the artillery brigade. Last week the "Rainbow" held a reunion at Columbus, Ohio, with addresses by onetime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker and Maj. Gen. Summerall. Lieut. Col. William P. Screws, 12th Infantry, of Baltimore, was elected president...
From Fort Eustis, Va., to Fort Story, near Norfolk, Va., an armament train carried the 52nd Railway Artillery Regiment with 8-inch rifles, 12-inch mortars, ammunition cars. A battalion of the 12th Coast Artillery also mobilized at Fort Story together with submarine minelayers, a searchlight platoon, an ordnance company and weather men. Great 16-inch coast guns were unlimbered in their seaside pits and tilted at the far horizon. Then, as the attacking "fleet" steamed near in the defenders' fancy, shore guns of all sizes roared, bombs burst in midsea, aircraft towered and circled to observe and report...
Long before 4 o'clock on the morning of the 12th, the roads to Baldonnel were burdened with men, women, children, donkeys, cycles, motorcars. The Bremen was trundled from her hangar and poised for flight, away from a perfect dawn. Koehl and Fitzmaurice, devout Catholics, made their confessions and Father O'Riordan blessed the plane. Baron von Huenefeld, doffing his yachting cap, hung a silken flag of the old German Empire beside that of the Irish Free State. President and Mrs. William T. Cosgrave, the German Consul-General, the Chief of Staff of the Army and other officials...
...next game was a draw and the third Capablanca won. The games that followed were all played with a Queen's Gambit and most of them were drawn; but Capablanca won the 7th and the 29th, Alekhine the 11th, 12th and 32nd. Last week the two men sat down to play the 34th game. Capablanca, with the score 5-3 against him, looked sulky. The Russian, with one game to win, looked meditative & nervous...
Back in England again he devoted himself more assiduously to his remaining ambition-to win the Derby horse race which his ancestor had established, now 147 years ago. The race had not been won by a member of his own family since 1787, when the 12th Earl secured the distinction. In 1924 fame overtook this ambition and the race was won for him by Sansovina. He gave the stake money ($53,460) to his trainer, the Hon. George Lambton...