Word: douglases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Broad jump: Winslow L. Pettingell, Robert C. Stuart; discus: John H. Herrick; distance: Laurence S. Flaherty, Alexander C. Northrup, Randall W. Richards, Jr., William H. Wright, Jr.; javelin: Paul M. Glendenning, Charles D. Ruch; half-mile: Sherman Brayton, Arthur J. Clement, Jr., Robert E. Rogers, Adoniram J. Wells, Jr.; hammer...
Your interesting story of General Douglas MacArthur's career (TIME, March 25, p. 18) is marred by some erroneous statements:
1) ''When Lieutenant Douglas MacArthur violated all etiquet expected of a military observer and charged up the hill with the Japanese soldiers at Mukden. . . ."
Lieutenant MacArthur was not a military observer at all nor at the battle of Mukden. The American observer of that name was his father, Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur, and that fine old Civil War Veteran did not charge with the Japanese soldiers on that occasion. Lieut. Douglas MacArthur was on...
The Douglas, on its last flight, successfully made contact with the Matson liner Mariposa 400 mi. at sea, flew back to Oakland. Promptly Major Snow telegraphed his resignation to Washington. Director Vidal accepted it without comment.