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...ousted him from his House seat in the 1928 anti-Smith turnover. In the Danville (5th) District Democratic Representative Joseph Whitehead was beaten for renomination by Thomas Burch on the charge that he was "too cold" toward the party's national ticket two years ago. In the Alexandria (8th) District Judge Howard Smith won the Democratic nomination over State Senator Frank L. Ball...
Sergeant Joe B. Sharp, 8th Infantry...
...Rhineland, in the courtyard of Mainz's Grand Ducal Palace, the French 8th Infanterie de Ligne stood at attention last week, each poilu perspiring profusely beneath his mountainous load: haversack, blanket roll, gas mask, mess kit and an extra pair of steel-shod marching boots lashed high above all. The sword of General Adolphe Guillaumat flashed...
...commanded. Rifles slapped to the salute. Buglers twirled their trumpets in the air, blew a fanfare, anti as the band crashed into "La Marseillaise" the French tricolor that had flown over German Mainz for nearly twelve years slipped slowly down the flagstaff. With as little commotion as possible the 8th Infantry scurried clanking through the streets, quickly entrained for Cherbourg. At the station a sudden irrepressible storm of boos and catcalls from the German populace sped them on their...
...George Voigt, best iron-shot maker of U. S. amateurs but a short driver, whose amateur standing was once questioned by the U. S. G. A. on the suspicion that he was giving golf lessons to his Washington, D. C. employer. Jones missed a five-foot putt on the 8th, another at the 10th and cut his drive into a whin at the 12th. Voigt was two up. Here Voigt began to slip. He drove out of bounds and lost the 15th. At the Railway Hole he played into Principal's Nose, famed bunker. Suddenly Jones found his putting...