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Rearguard Guards. Procurement for the peacetime armies and mobilization of industry to supply the war-time armies are the prime duties of the Assistant Secretary of War. While playing Secretary, Assistant Secretary Johnson has not neglected these duties. In fact, he has done a rapid, bang-up job. When he talks about the next war, Louis Johnson emphasizes: "The civilians will be fighting, too." Every U. S. citizen will be mobilized in some fashion. Heart of the War Department's plans for civilians is its Industrial Mobilization Plan, to throw U. S. industry into war-time gear with...
Phil Ross pitched a bang-up game for the Deacons, allowing only four infield hits and fanning 15, but support was poor. His teammates could only collect three hits, two of them by Mary Ever, second sacker, and the Deacons boggled woefully in the field for a total of nine costly errors to give Davenport a 7 to 3 victory...
Phil Ross pitched a bang-up game for Kirkland, with Ernie Smith, Marty Evers, and Dick Mudge backing him up on the attack...
Emperor Nero is supposed to have been a bang-up organist and bagpiper. England's Henry VIII composed chamber music and religious choruses. Germany's Frederick the Great was a flute player. Most musical of present-day royal figures is Denmark's tall, genial Crown Prince Frederik...
...What we need," Ts said ('tis said--get it) "is a new deal, and that is a man's work." He also declared that this was no insinuation against Mme. Perkins of the U.S.A., who he said had done "a bang...