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Meanwhile, 31-year-old Carlton Cook, amateur lyricist, artist and poet of Denver, Colo., happened to read in a paper the text of a speech by Kitty Cheatham, a folk-song singer, which was delivered last year during International Women's Week in Budapest. "Can you imagine the effect," Miss Cheatham had asked, "if all the nations of the world would join together and sing Hallelujah?" These words were practically a revelation to Lyricist Cook. He too, like Bandleader Lopez, had long brooded over the U. S. National Anthem's imperfections, particularly deprecated such sworded sentiments...
Arthur N. Holcombe '08, professor of Government at Harvard was chairman of the committee. Other members included Professor E. E. Cheatham of Columbia, Professor B. D. Gideonse of the University of Chicago, and Professor George H. Sabine of Cornell...
...University of Michigan, B. F. Shambaugh of the University of Iowa, B. F. Yanney of College of Wooster, General Manager B. F. Lawrence of the Indianapolis Star, onetime (1926-30) Quartermaster-General B. F. Cheatham of the U. S. Army, Mayor B. F. Stapelton of Denver, Colo., and plain Benjamin Franklin, consulting engineer of Franklin & Co., Philadelphia...
Rear Admiral Joseph Johnston Cheatham, Paymaster General of the Navy and Chief of the Bureau of Supplies & Accounts, insisted that his agents at Cavite and Pearl Harbor bought meat from Australia and New Zealand only because the U. S. product was either not available or more costly. Naval supply officers last year bought 20,000,000 Ib. of meat, of which only 10% came from abroad...
Quartermaster General John Lesesne De Witt explained that the Army's meat purchases are in the hands of depot quar-termasters in the corps areas. In the Philippines the Army & Navy club together to buy meat on one contract to get a lower price. Both Admiral Cheatham and General De Witt said they would be "delighted" to buy beef from U. S. packers if it could be shipped to foreign stations to meet the foreign price. Declared Acting Secretary of War Davison...