Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cooked eggs, cold toast, no drinking water, no milk, no soup, no jam, no jelly- upon such things and conditions did the Secretary of War have to spend attention last week. Such things and conditions had been found to exist at Walter Reed General Hospital, the Army's largest medical establishment...
Walter Reed Hospital occupies a large scrubbily-wooded tract at the far end of 16th Street, Washington, near the District of Columbia-Maryland line. It is composed of central stone buildings surrounded by numerous one-story frame houses. Commanding is Brig.-General James Madison Kennedy...
...mess was warranted. . . . As to all other complaints the inspector has reached the conclusion that they are not justified by the actual facts. . . . The hospital is rendering a fine service to its patients. . . . I have brought the deficiencies of the mess to the attention of the commanding general of the hospital and have instructed him to remedy them at once. . . . I anticipate . . . an improvement...
...flutter in the routine did West Point's officers permit Cadet Parham's presence to cause. Warned Major General William Ruthven Smith, Academy superintendent, "There will be no distinction made either officially or unofficially. Mr. Parham is here by law. . . . If any cadet thinks the white race is a superior race, he can go ahead and prove...
Twenty-five years after his honeymoon trip there, Dwight Filley Davis last week returned to Manila. He was promptly inaugurated as ninth Governor-General of the Philippine Islands. His arrival caused a holiday. White men and Filipinos stood in the streets to cheer. In his inaugural address, he pledged himself: 1) to pursue the policies of his predecessor, Henry Lewis Stimson, now Secretary of State; 2) to oppose any limit on duty-free sugar to the U. S.; 3) to promote "an era of economic and industrial development." Independence he would not discuss...