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...line is fairly well determined. Captain Whit Miller will be stationed at right end with either Bob Nissen or John Kelley on the opposite flank. All three are fine pass receivers. George Sommers will be at right tackle and Bob O'Briend at left tackle. Dan Dacey will be at right guard and Lou Young at left guard and Stub Pearson, the only sophomore on the varsity, will be stationed at center. Miller, Young, and Sommers are the lettermen in the line...
...Gardella had a busy time breaking up many A team plays, and Loren MacKinney continued to look good at the left flank. Peabody, Lowry, and Sargeant manned the guard slots on the A team all day, and their work was entirely satisfactory...
...Senate Munitions committee in 1934-35-Nye, Bone, Clark, Vandenberg, Pope, George, Barbour-implicitly believe that World War I was engineered by and run for the benefit of J. P. Morgan & Co., and the munitions-makers whom they dubbed "merchants of death." And last week, on an unguarded flank of the Roosevelt Administration, whose big guns for six years have boomed denunciations of "princes of privilege," "entrenched greed," "wolves of Wall Street," "money-barons," etc., etc., they found a rich ammunition dump: at the head of the all-important War Resources Board, Edward Stettinius Jr. Morgan-man, head...
...conjunction with the First Army. That Army, mobilized north of Aachen and led in under the Limburg tip of The Netherlands by General Alexander von Kluck, was, after passing Liége, to execute the widest, swiftest swing of all through Belgium, to envelop the French left flank and its unready British supports, to sweep around through Paris, to herd the French Army away from the city toward its eastern frontier where it might be surrounded...
...from it troops to police Belgium, 2) abandoned the classic outline of the Schlieffen Plan by letting Kluck swing east of Paris instead of west. Kluck further messed up the Plan by chasing the retreating French after Bülow, on his left, had halted, thus exposing his own flank. But for these errors Moltke might have accomplished the extraordinary feat of taking Paris in 26 days by the simple process of entering a neutral side door. As it was, he got so far in that it took the Allies, with U. S. help, four years to eject the invader...