Word: douglases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A recheck of the facts proves TIME correct. Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and Pershing are the only permanent generals in U. S. history. Tasker Howard Bliss and Peyton Conway March served as temporary generals during the World War, were created full generals on the retired list by an act of Congress...
¶ In Brussels, a big Douglas transport of the Royal Dutch Air Lines (KLM) took off on a morning run from Amsterdam to Paris. Some witnesses thought the motors sounded queer. On board were a crew of three and twelve passengers, including Benjamin F. Mun of Long Beach, Calif., president...
" 'General Douglas' passed out of the picture some time ago and was replaced by another Russian, whose name I never learned.
"When I first arrived in Spain I was supposed to be under 'Comrade' Cisneros, the Spanish aviation chief, but I soon found I was taking orders from a Russian, 'General Douglas.'
Having cogitated SEC's friendly criticism and suggestions, the Council's president, able, chubby J. (for Joshua) Reuben Clark Jr., requested the Secretary of State and SEChairman to appoint a two-man "Board of Visitors" to descend upon the Council ''from time to time with or...