Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...superintendents met in General Pershing's office at the State, War & Navy Building.* Each kept clear in mind his view of the bone of contention: The Navy like almost all U. S. institutions of college rank, limits its athletes to three years of collegiate competition. The Army allows members of its three upper classes? to play irrespective of varsity experience a cadet may have had before reaching West Point. The Navy thought the Army ought to conform with the general rule. The Army thought the Navy was complaining because it had been beaten by Army so often lately...
...What you're trying to get is parity, not eligibility," countered General Smith. "No school but Annapolis objects to our eligibility rule. . . . Army trusts Navy and feels hurt. ... I refuse to compromise on a principle...
...from the conference strode the General and the Admiral, each accusing the other of stubbornness...
William Graham Everson was Adjutant-General of the Indiana National Guard as well as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Muncie, Ind., when President Hoover appointed him to succeed Major-General Creed C. Hammond. In Washington Preacher Everson became a full-fledged Major-General of the Regular Army (pay and allowances: $9,700). His job: to administer the $27,000,000 per year the U. S. provides to help maintain guard units; to supply them with U. S. equipment, regular Army officers for training; to keep them up to Regular Army standards...
Conscious of an incongruity, Preacher-General Everson explained...