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...gamecock jauntiness," Johnston was already smoldering with rage at Jefferson Davis over being placed fourth in a list of full generals. Ceremonious, bad-tempered notes passed back & forth. The Secretary of War, Judah P. Benjamin, maddened Johnston by going over his head in military matters and out-arguing him afterward. At one sore point, Johnston beseeched Benjamin to help "create the belief in the army that I am its commander...
...While in service and for six months afterward, soldiers need not meet income-tax payments-though they will have to settle later. If a soldier is behind on local taxes on his home or personal property, the tax collector cannot foreclose on his property without court permission...
...considered the two-week news blackout a dangerous precedent. The correspondents agreed that it was perfectly desirable, for the sake of the President's safety, to suppress advance information about his itinerary. But they saw no need to suppress the news of where he had been for days afterward, no need to keep all but three press-association correspondents from accompanying...
...Afterward Mrs. J. E. Pigott, wife of a Tylertown merchant, helped the Secretary to dinner. On his paper plate she heaped fried chicken, chicken pie, potato salad, warm spice cake, two kinds of pie. "This is a great idea," he beamed...
...second in command. He is used to taking charge. In World War I he interrupted his Columbia University law course to serve in France in the 304th Field Artillery, was wounded and rose to captain, was noted for commanding the best-drilled, best-disciplined battery in the 304th. Afterward he went to Wall Street as a corporation lawyer, soon was a partner in the investment-banking firm of Dillon, Read. In 1928 he sold his partnership (for a reputed $2,000,000). He started his own company and made money during the depression by specializing in small stock-&-bond issues...