Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senectissimus & Pershing Sirs: In your issue of July 1, p. 10, in reference to Senator Warren's term in the Senate, you state in the last paragraph that "his influence was largely responsible for the selection of his son-in-law, General John Joseph Pershing, to command the A. E. F."* On as important a matter as this, regardless of one's feelings for General Pershing, the records should be kept straight. If you will remember, General Pershing had proven himself to the War Department to be a commander who could follow orders to the very last letter...
...Last week Sir Douglas announced the personnel (27 men) of this expedition, which sails next month on the Discovery, oldtime ship of the late Explorer Robert Falcon Scott. The Mawson purpose: to spend two years mapping Antarctica. †Navigazione General Italiana. These motor-ships, each propelled by two diesel motors, can run six months without stopping. ** In the Mexican fiasco over General Pancho Villa...
...will of the late General William Bramwell Booth of the Salvation Army, probated last week in London, showed an estate...
...features in connection with the many decadent productions that have been disported on the metropolitan stage this season . . . is the fact that they have been attended by thousands of respectable young girls, either with the sanction, or in the company of, their parents or guardians. . . . [This] indicates such a general lack of ethical, as well as thetic qualities, as makes even the most liberal minded sigh for a return of the ascetic Puritan spirit which so sternly repressed certain forms of wrongdoing. . . . When daringly salacious scenes, songs and tableaux are wildly applauded, not only by evening audiences but at matinees...
More Gliders. Against Glider, Inc., Detroit's motorless plane manufacturer, last week developed a competitor, American Motorless Aviation Corp. President is Colonial Airways' president, Major General John F. O'Ryan...