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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colonel Albert G. Love: In the World War, 65.9% of 224,000 U. S. wounded were shot, 31.49% gassed, .26% bayonetted. Artillery fire caused 70% of the gunshot wounds (compared to artillery's 10% in the Civil War, when small arms caused 90% of wounds). As in all armies, the infantry in the World War had the highest casualty rate; aviation along with ordnance the lowest (only 8% of Air Corps personnel are pilots...
...Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles got wind of the German plans, quickly made a counterproposal to Brazil. The U. S. would be delighted to send General Marshall to visit General Góes Monteiro, would be more than pleased to have the Brazilian Army man come back with the U. S. General on a U. S. warship on a return visit to the U.S. At this happy prospect General Góes Monteiro, in Rio de Janeiro last week, oozed satisfaction...
...December 1937, while Stalin was purging Old Bolsheviks and generals, there appeared in Paris one Walter G. Krivitsky, who said he had been a general in the Red Army and had fled from Russia for his life. General Krivitsky proved to be an articulate foe of the Stalin regime. He gave out interviews declaring that the purged Bolsheviks were innocent, that Stalin was betraying both the Soviet Union and the working class. Last December General Krivitsky came to the U. S. Last month he began publishing a series of articles in the Saturday Evening Post...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a lovingly faithful picturization of the novelette by James Hilton that gave Alexander Woollcott such a good cry five years ago. Like the book, it is sentimental in the precise sense: it exploits emotions which, reduced to propositions, most people would reject as false-e.g., that failure is somehow preferable to success. Shrewdly directed by Sam Wood, the cinementor of the Marx Brothers, Goodbye, Mr. Chips goes out for tears as unscrupulously and efficiently as those merry-andrews go out for laughs...
Goals--Henry 6, Waldmann 3, Ott, Sweeney, Zouck 2, Halstead, Hammond, Harrison 1. HARVARD YALE Hanford, g. g., Atkins Livingston, pt. pt., Cole Gilbert, c.pt. c.pt., Batty Blotner, 1d. 1d., Hopgood Halstead, 2d. 2d., Madden Willard, c. c., Ott Zouck, 2a. 2a., Henry Anderson, 1a. 1a., Sweeney Hammond, o.h. o.h., Waldmann Riocken, i.h. i.h., Bolton