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TIME'S lamentable confusion of the British and the Bridgeport Smiths was called to the attention of TIME-readers by President Henry Sloane Coffin of Union Theological Seminary in the July 16 issue. TIME then said and now gladly repeats...
Nobly borne upon a rumbling gun carriage came the coffin of Fayolle, he who succeeded Petain and held Verdun through the dire summer of 1917. Like most of the French Marshals, he was once a Professor at the Ecole de Guerre; and time has vindicated his numerous original doctrines de la concentration des feux et des moyens (theories of laying down a barrage...
Behind the coffin walked Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré and Marshals...
Arrived at George's modest apartment, Al went up in the old-fashioned elevator to greet Mrs. Brennan and her daughter Mary. What he said was inaudible. He went to an adjoining room to look upon George's face and the flowers which covered a bronze coffin...
...England and Middle Atlantic States, Senator Moses found that Dr. Work still intended to control the entire campaign from headquarters at Washington; that he and not Senator Moses would preside at Eastern advisory meetings. Senator Moses gave way to thoroughgoing irritation. "I am not a Mahomet's coffin!* " he cried. "I am President pro tem of the Senate. I was selected by Mr. Hoover's friends to preside over the National Convention that nominated him. I shall go to Palo Alto to deliver the speech of notification. I see that it is useless to remain in the campaign...