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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Military Science IV seniors who will direct the demonstration are Charles W. Kessler, Battalion Commander, F. Gorham Brigham, Jr., Battalion adjutant, and the four Battery commanders, James J. Gaffney, Jr., Robert A. Williams, Edward T. Gignoux, and Francis A, Wendell. Other important Senior officers of the unit are Clifton F. Kann, Malcolm S. M. Watts, Jr., William F. Renner, Richard M. Walsh, Jr., Henry M. Adlis, and Richard S. Levering...
...precisely 32 sec. before 1,000 appalled spectators. It was almost as if it had been done as a laboratory experiment, like a discarded battleship blown up for target practice before experts. If such an experiment had been planned, it would have been hard to gather a more competent battalion of onlookers—Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl, No. 1 U. S. airship man; representatives of Deutsche Zeppelin Reederai; aviation editors and reporters from all important newspapers, magazines and press services; pilots and hostesses of American Airlines ready to ferry the Hindenburg's passengers to Newark, and a gay crowd waving...
...Battalion Commander, in charge of the review, is Charles W. Kessler '37. Assisting him will be Battalion Adjutant F. Gorham Brigham Jr. '37. The four Battery Commanders are James J. Gaffney Jr. '37, Robert A. Williams '37, Edward T. Gignoux '37, and Francis A. Wendell...
Practices for the big show have been staged for two weeks, and a complete rehearsal is scheduled for Monday. One of the many difficulties uncovered has been teaching the Battalion and Battery officers to salute with sabres. So far, they have been kept a good 15 feet apart during this maneuver, and not without reason...
...Spanish civil war put blood in the eye of Owen O'Duffy. From the back hills he recruited a battalion of young boys, sworn to die in the fight against communism and in defense of the Catholic Church, and that a great many of them did. Last week, with General Franco pounding away at the gates of Bilbao, word came that General O'Duffy's Irish Brigade would soon be on the way back to Britain. The official reason was that since the international non-intervention scheme went into effect fortnight ago, no replacements could...