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Nominees for Overseers, members of the 30-man, highest governing board of the University, are: Dexter Perkins '09, chairman of the History Department of the University of Rochester; Frederick W. Hubbell '13, President of the Equitable Life Insurance Co. of Iowa; Devereux C. Josephs '15, President of the New York Life Insurance Co.; Walter H. Wheeler, Jr. '18, President and Director of Pitney-Bowes...
...rifle and whose religion is his corps. And it is nourished by the legendary heroes of the Marines' past: Commandant William Ward Burrows, who in 1800 ordered one Marine shavetail to redress an insult from a naval officer with his pistol; Brigadier General (now Congressman) James P. S. Devereux, the defender of Wake Island; General Thomas Holcomb, the father of the modern corps. The battle cry of a leathery Marine sergeant in World War I ("Come on, you sons of bitches. Do you want to live forever?") had its echoes two winters ago in Marine General O. P. Smith...
Island when it was stormed by the Japanese. Said Devereux: "In politics, sometimes, you never know when you get hit . . . It is an entirely different kind of battle, a kind of battle out of uniform...
...Last week; We, the People gave a 30-minute preview of the kind of political fighting General Eisenhower may expect when he steps into the political ring. The gravest warning was spoken by Maryland's Republican Congressman James Devereux, the'ex-Marine brigadier general who was the commander at Wake...
Representative James P. Devereux, Republican of Maryland, Marine hero of Wake Island. "As an old soldier, General MacArthur knew that there was a possibility that he would be relieved of command if he spoke out . . . There are times, however, when, in the best interests of our country, it behooves a person of MacArthur's stature to voice his opinion...