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Walter Reed Hospital occupies a large scrubbily-wooded tract at the far end of 16th Street, Washington, near the District of Columbia-Maryland line. It is composed of central stone buildings surrounded by numerous one-story frame houses. Commanding is Brig.-General James Madison Kennedy...
...Army men therefore make good budget men, and the first two Directors of the Budget, were of the army. Last week the third Director of the Budget was chosen and he was of the army too. The tradition now seemed soundly entrenched. Director No. 1 was Brig.-Gen. Charles Gates Dawes. Director No. 2 was Brig.-Gen. Herbert Mayhew Lord. Director No. 3 is Col. James C. Roop, who will doubtless get higher rank before long. President Hoover induced him to accept "at great personal sacrifice...
Retentions. President Hoover last week retained in office: Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, retired director of the U. S. Veterans Bureau; Brig. Gen. Herbert M. Lord, retired Director of the Budget; Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, since 1921 Chief of the Bureau of Naval Aeronautics...
...such wise ones already are Brig. Gen. Albert Clayton Dalton, vice president and general manager of the U. S. Merchant Fleet Corporation, and Samuel Pickard, Federal Radio Commissioner...
Died. J. Louis Webb, 73, Manhattan connoisseur, art collector, huntsman, fisherman, uncle of famed Poloist J. Watson Webb, son of late Editor James Watson Webb (New York Courier & Enquirer, 1827-61), grandson of Brig. Gen. Samuel Blatchley Webb, of George Washington's Army; in Manhattan...