Word: corpses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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As if it were so much raw meat, politicians in & out of Washington last week sank their teeth in the strange case of Major General Johnson Hagood who, for speaking flippantly of WPA, was fortnight ago summarily relieved of his command of the Eighth Corps Area and ordered to his...
Discipline. Chief of Staff Craig, reading General Hagood's testimony in the Washington Star, wrote his subordinate to ask whether he had really said what was reported. Fourteen days later "by direction of the President" General Hagood was deprived of his Corps Area command-a terrific slap for an...
To illiterate Paraguayan veterans, the shining fact was that Corps Commander Colonel Rafael Franco, 39, had led them victoriously in person to the very border of Bolivia proper. Something seemed wrong when their commanding officer, General José Felix Estigarribia, marched them home to poverty-stricken Paraguay, when Foreign Minister...
In the early cool of one morning, an army corps of jungle veterans mobilized around the chief square of Paraguay's capital of Asunción. At 7 o'clock they seized the railway station and two radio stations, broke off telephone, telegraph and rail communications and advanced...
Farson's patience and energetic bonhomie were rewarded; he did well enough to set up his own selling company. Then came the Russian Revolution, in which, in spite of his good friend John Reed's hot tips, he had taken no stock. When his business and night life...