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...July day in 1883 when its convening members tramped through the flag decked streets of Denver the Grand Army of the Republic was 100,000 strong. Eighteen years out of the Civil War, Union veterans were in the prime of their early 40's marched with firm steps, heads up. Founded in 1866 as a patriotic, non-political fraternal body, the G. A. R. was in process of becoming the greatest Treasury-raiding machine the nation had yet seen. Solidly allied with the dominant Republican Party, it was well started on its course of welding power in a crusading...
...decked streets of Cleveland last week tramped a veterans' army far greater than the Denver procession of 1883. Of the American Legion's 900,000 members, some 200,000 had swarmed to its annual convention and an estimated 70,000 marched in the 11½-hr. parade. Eighteen years out of the World War, the veterans were in the prime of their early 40's, marched with firm steps, heads up. Founded in Paris after the Armistice as a patriotic non-political body, it was in the process of becoming the greatest Treasury-raiding machine the nation...
...Eighteen boys in the Middle West selected for outstanding ability and character from more than three hundred top-ranking high school and private school competitors in the area, have been awarded prize fellowships to enter Harvard College this fall, President James B. Conant announced here tonight. These are the highest awards given to entering Freshmen at Harvard, being renewable throughout the four years of college and carrying stipends sufficiently large, when necessary, to meet all the student's expenses. Maximum awards are $1,000 the first year and $1,200 each year there after...
...boys, who were school leaders in scholarship and class activities, were chosen from an area including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee. Eighteen other secondary school graduates from these states were named earlier this summer as winners of Harvard College Prize Fellowships...
...Eighteen-year-old Tennist Robert Riggs of Los Angeles: the Newport Invitation tournament: 8-6, 6-4, 8-10. 3-6, 6-1 in the final; against Frank Parker of Spring Lake...