Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Major General Robert C. Davis, Adjutant General of the Army, re ported that as of June 30, 1924, the U. S. Army (active) consisted of : Commissioned Officers 11,655 Warrant Officers 1,065 Enlisted Men 128,223 Total 140,943* Army Nurses 675 West Point Cadets 666 Contract Surgeons 30 Army Field Clerks 220 Quartermaster Field Clerks 167 Grand Total 142,701* The distribution of the Army was: Continental U.S. 104,286 Hawaii 13,096 Phillipines 11,808 Panama Canal Zone 8,880 China 977 Alaska 393 Europe (Graves Registration Service) 5 Military Attaches...
...suit of the Government to recover the Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve, leased to the Pan-American Petroleum & Transport Co. of Edward L. Doheny. Almost a year since the scandal began to brew, it is still sputtering?the Government trying to cancel the lease and make void the contract whereby the Doheny company tapped the California reserve and paid its royalties in tankage constructed for the Government at the Pearl Harbor naval base, Hawaii...
...Entente is French for understanding which, in diplomatic parlance, has the further connotation of being unwritten. An alliance, in contrast, is a formal, written contract...
...Athletic Association has renewed its contract with the arena of last year. By this arrangement it is expected that the team will have possession of the ice from 2 to 5 on Monday and Wednesday afternoons and in addition will have a one hour practice period on Tuesdays, Thursday and Fridays. There will be no hockey season tickets sold by the Athletic Association this year, it was said yesterday, since they were not sufficiently popular last year to warrant a continuance of the plan. Mr. C. F. Getchell declared, however, that in a short time he would announce...
...Myers 3L and C. C. Williams 3L, members of the Langdell-Marshall Law, Club, were the successful attorneys for the plaintiff. The defendant Hotel Company was represented by C. C. Cabot 3L and Nathaniel Thayer 3L, members of the Thayer Club. The case concerned the validity of a certain contract...