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Both will be there Saturday afternoon. Buck Dyes and Ray Anderson scrimmaged for the first time this week. Pond has fairly definitely decided on his starting lineup. Dyess and Moody are the ends, Captain Platt and Bob Brooks the tackles, Dern and Burnam the guards, Stack the center, and Anderson, Collins, Johnny Miller and Bill Snavely the backs...
...class administrator, the army in 1933 was in the doldrums anyway, was no great administrative problem. Even when Harry Woodring became involved in a messy procurement scandal with Army Goods Dealer Joseph Silverman Jr., the White House allowed him to weather it. Not until Secretary of War George H. Dern died in 1936 did Harry Woodring become a problem. Franklin Roosevelt met that problem the easy way: he successively saved Harry Woodring's face and pleased his friend, Mrs. Harry Woodring, by upping the Assistant first to Acting, then to full Secretary...
...that that is over this paper does not propose to be browbeaten any more for 'dern' his hide not even his family are mourning his death-they are all glad the mean old cuss has gone and where he has gone the Editor of this paper hopes he will not have...
There is no good reason why the President of the U. S. should travel to far parts of the U. S. to bury his followers, but politicians are particular about funerals. Moreover, President Roosevelt had traveled far to bury Speakers Rainey and Byrns, Secretary of War Dern and his own personal Secretary Louis McHenry Howe. His decision a few hours after loyal Joe Robinson's death not to go to the funeral at Little Rock was not liked by a good many Congressmen. They said nothing publicly, but when he stepped out before the funeral with his "message...
Died. George Henry Dern, 63, Secretary of War since 1933 (see p. 8); in Washington...