Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge of the 6th Corps Area (Chicago), to command the potent Philippine Department. Dapper, diplomatic General Parker achieved a brilliant War record as commander of the First Division in the Argonne. South Carolina-born and socially inclined, he did much to revive the social life of Chicago's Fort Sheridan. With his wife and one of his daughters, Anne (who was last year voted the most beautiful girl at Smith College), he will sail for Manila next month...
Uncle Sam says the idea of the system is to give more people work and raise wages, yet he fires his own employees and lowers the wages of those he keeps. At Fort Sam Houston, Tex., he has fired between 50 and 75 skilled workmen who made $100 to $125 per month, and has supplanted them with unskilled soldiers at $17.50 per month. These men are now unemployed, many of them having been faithful civil service employees of Uncle Sam for from ten to 20 years...
...payments from those farmers in whose debts private lenders held an interest through Federal Land and Intermediate Credit Banks. Another ''first" last week was a stop-order issued by the Federal Trade Commission under the new Securities Act. Last month the Speculative Investment Trust of Fort Worth, Tex. registered a $250,000 issue with the Commission. Its registration papers were found to be inaccurate and incomplete. It failed to file its advertising prospectus-addressed to "Dear Friends & Backers," promising "Big, Quick Profit Winnings," and adorned with a large NRA Blue Eagle. The concern was ordered not to sell...
...seasoned into tougher timber; he decided that he liked the life. He saw quite active service in the Philippines, in China, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Haiti. Twice he won the Congressional Medal of Honor-for his part in the fighting at Vera Cruz, in 1914, and for the capture of Fort Riviera (whose existence Haiti's Minister to the U. S., Dantes Bellegarde, two years ago attempted to deny). Butler says he was sidetracked during the War because of an ''honest expression of opinion," was finally sent to France only to be put in command of the inglorious...
...marching" column stretched out for a mile and a half. It was kept in order with the help of radio networks, one relaying messages from Expedition Commander Major John A. Robenson in the vanguard to officers in the rear, another connecting the column with Fort Bliss at El Paso. When the caravan reached Terlingua the horses were unloaded and the cavalry proceeded under their own power 15 mi. to the Mexican border. A significant experiment in army transportation, the expedition indicated that U. S. borders could be protected by distant major posts, thus eliminating the cost of permanent border forts...