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There were the 24th and 38th Divisions of Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger's new Eighth Army, both on the Bataan salient. The 24th, commanded by slim, handsome Major General Frederick Augustus Irving, sprang from an old square division in Hawaii. The 24th had been blooded on New Guinea and Leyte. The 38th was the "Cyclone Division" of the Indiana-Kentucky-West Virginia National Guards. Many of its officers had been businessmen; its commander was a regular, Major General Henry L. C. Jones...
...living persons who have received the Order include David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of England during the last war; Augustus John, one of the world's outstanding portrait painters; and Professor Gilbert Murray, eminent Greek scholar and active in the League of Nations. Whitehead, the most recently honored, is an author and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge...
...done anything newsworthy enough to put his picture on TIME's cover, so somebody suggested we stop looking for a Man of the Week and pick a Man of the Year. This was an easy choice: Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who had soloed the Atlantic in only 33 hours and 39 minutes, was the hero...
Through the ankle-deep mud of the Emilian plain, Canadians of the Eighth Army fought from grapevine to grapevine toward Ravenna (pop. 78,000), Byron's favorite Italian town, once an early Christian metropolis and a naval base in the days of Augustus Caesar. Finally the Princess Louise Dragoon Guards drove in from the northwest while the 27th Lancers pushed in from the south. The Germans backed out so quickly there was no time for house-to-house fighting. Residents turned out for the kind of flag-waving reception the toiling troops in Italy had almost forgotten...
...Italy at a time when the German tribes were spawning. As the cost of government went up with the vast proliferation of games and benefactions, men sought to escape their duties as taxpayers by deliberately debasing their social standings. The role of the State increased after the time of Augustus, and the individual tended to lose his moral hardihood as his mind was more & more made up for him by his political masters...