Word: 38th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus jauntily 59-year-old F. P. A. concluded his 38th year of daily columning. He still had something better than a tidy poker allowance from Information Please ($900 a week), but chances appeared slim that he would ever again match his Conning Tower heyday on the old New York World or his $21,852-a-year syndicate column on the Herald Tribune. Less appreciated now are his own Pepys' diary of poker-playing, reading, tennis, his punning and light verse. Real meat of his column was always contributions. In it appeared the early efforts of Dorothy Parker, George...
Last week there was a small but hopeful sign that the U.S. Army might be on the way to getting tough-tough enough to face modern military competition. Major General Daniel Isom Sultan was ordered to command of the 38th (National Guard) Division at Camp Shelby, Miss. He was the first Regular Army officer in this emergency to replace the National Guard commander of a Guard division. He will not be the last. Of the 17 National Guard divisions which went to France with the A.E.F., only one (the 27th) had its original commander (Major General John...
Last week Carnegie passed up what was to have been its 38th International, put on instead a bang-up $3,000,000 survey of U. S. painting-367 pictures, dating from 1680 to 1940. The show opened, according to tradition, with Founder's Day ceremonies at the Institute...
...morning last week stocky, pudgy-cheeked little President Lázaro Cárdenas stood before the opening session of what may or may not prove to be the 38th Federal Congress of Mexico. For 65 minutes he talked-about inter-American solidarity, about the justice of his oil expropriations, about the success of his regime in decreasing illiteracy and redistributing land to the peasants. In the Chamber's jampacked diplomatic gallery German Minister Baron Rüdt von Collenberg-Bödigheim listened with Teutonic impassiveness as other speakers swung into attacks on totalitarianism. Thinner-skinned Italian Minister...
Even in the Army, trouble brewed last week. It was revealed that certain soldiers of the 38th Infantry Battalion, strategically posted on the fringe of the Federal District, and others "in the country," had been caught with "visiting cards" on which was printed the legend: "Soldiers, take arms against your usurpers when Almazan orders...