Word: 165th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first candidate to enter this year's Republican field was William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan of Buffalo. As Wartime commander of the 165th Infantry ("Fighting 69th"), he made a great reputation for personal heroism, returned from France with his mud-splashed tunic heavy with medals. As U. S. District Attorney at Buffalo, he was drastic enough to lose some friends locally but to be called to Washington to assist the Attorney General. For three years with Mabel Walker Willebrandt, he practically ran the Department of Justice over the hulking shoulder of easy-going John Garibaldi Sargent. He climbed...
...University of Pennsylvania last week celebrated the 165th anniversary of its medical school (oldest in the land) with banquets, speeches by five of the eight sages* to whom it gave honorary degrees, inspections of its vast medical plant, and President-elect Thomas Sovereign Gates' declaration: "I would rather see one ounce of genius developed here than tons of mediocrity...
Died. Major Michael A. ("Dynamite Mike") Kelly, War Commander of the 3rd (Shamrock) Battalion of the 165th Regiment, holder of the Croix de Guerre, the Cross of the Legion of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross; by his own hand, accidentally, while cleaning his service pistol; in Manhattan...