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...place of Lieut. General Edgar Jadwin, retired chief of Army Engineers, the President appointed Brig. Genera! Lytle Brown...
...Engaged. Brig. General George Van Horn Moseley, commander of the First Cavalry Division; to Mrs. Florence DuBois of Englewood...
Reserve officers and National Guardsmen were aquiver with excitement. On the night before the big Red drive, few if any of them got any sleep. Brig.-General Cornelius Vanderbilt, commanding the 154th Brigade of the New York Guard, waited bravely for the attack at the Wrightstown-Lakewood crossroads. When along toward dawn it did not occur, he rolled up in his blanket and took a 60-minute catnap on the roadside...
Last week a piece of paper awaiting his signature brought President Hoover memories. The paper was an order promoting Brig. Gen. Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. Marine Corps, to the rank of Major-General. The President's memories were of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, when he, then a young mining engineer, had discussed the defense of Tientsin with Smedley Darlington Butler, then an enthusiastic Second Lieutenant of Marines just turned 19. President Hoover signed the order...
Promoted. Brig. General Smedley Darlington Butler, 48, of the U. S. Marine Corps; to Major-General...