Word: brig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smedley Darlington Butler Jr., son of the famed, gimlet-eyed Brig.-Gen- eral of Marines, was arrested for motoring 65 m. p. h. through Salem, N. J., fined $10 by Justice of the Peace Elizabeth Smith...
Choosing a man to spend that sum wisely might have been a hard task, but President Hoover found the man at hand. He appointed to be Administrator of Veterans' Affairs the Director of the Veterans' Bureau, Brig. General Frank Thomas Hines, Wartime Chief of Embarkation, famed Army administrator decorated by five nations. Continued the President: ''General Hines has been offered a very important commercial position, but has agreed to remain on temporarily to give me the advantage of his wide experience in reorganization of the new setup. As I have said, we will be able to make important economies...
...Married. Brig. General George Van Horn Moseley, U. S. A., 55, chief of the 4th Section (supplies and evacuation) of General Pershing's Wartime General Staff; General Charles Gates Dawes's assistant in organizing the Bureau of Budget in 1921; now aid to the Assistant Secretary of War, Frederik Huff Payne (TIME, May 5); and Mrs. Florence DuBois, 36, daughter of the late James Barber, co-founder of Barber Steamship Lines; in Manhattan...
Foolish indeed would be any Englishwoman to try this out on Brig.-General Charles Gates Dawes. Just how foolish she would be, just how thoroughly American he is, Ambassador Dawes reminded the world in a speech last week at Cambridge...
Last week President Hoover appointed Brig.-General Samuel Hof, Assistant Chief of Ordnance, to be the Army's Chief of Ordnance, with the rank of Maj.-General, filling the place of Maj.-General Clarence Charles Williams, retired on April 1. So elated was broad-shouldered, 72-inch Maj.-General Hof that he went straight to the golf course, beatfor the first time an habitual opponent...