Word: general
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...celebration, spry but ailing General Pershing showed himself to newsmen at Washington's Walter Reed Hospital. It was the 13th day of World...
...very good time" to be celebrating birthdays, mused the General. He then recommended that the U. S. Army, having just been upped to 227,000 by Presidential decree, be forthwith increased by Congress to full peacetime strength (280,000). "Finally," said he, "I must again recall our deplorable situation when we entered the World War 22 years ago. Then not a single (military) move had been made ... to prepare for it. That experience with its costly lesson, I am happy to say, appears certain to be avoided in the event that we should again become involved...
...title created for "but never accepted by George Washington, conferred afterwards upon only four officers: Grant, Sherman, Sheridan (Civil War), Pershing. Although he retired in 1924, John J. Pershing is still on the active list as General of the Armies, has the words lettered over his sumptuous, seldom-used office in the State Department...
Last week U. S. Attorney General Frank Murphy's clean-up man in Louisiana, Assistant Attorney General Oetje John Rogge, collared one of the Big Three. In New Orleans' Federal Court, slick, new-rich Seymour Weiss was convicted of using the mails to defraud, fined $2,000, sentenced to 30 months in prison. Convicted with him were Louisiana State University's ex-President James Monroe Smith, who must answer to 38 other charges and indictments; Dr. Smith's wife's nephew, John Emory Adams; and Louis C. LeSage, a previously suspended executive of Standard...
...diplomats"; the Canadians, at first indifferent to the war, electrified at its new menace (see p. 21); Japanese, signing an armistice with Russia, launching a new. offensive in China (see p. 24)-all these no less than Germans felt its power. It reached into libraries, discredited books; reached into general staffs, discredited strategists; reached into Chancelleries, discredited experts. But more than anything else it knocked sky-high the picture of World War II following the pattern of World...