Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief of Staff, U. S. Army. The man who now works and broods there is weary beyond his years, so tired that at times the water in his eyes seems to be tears. After 41 years in the Army, three years and seven months as its topmost officer, General Malin Craig is ready to retire before his tour expires August...
...Governors Island in New York Harbor is the headquarters of the Commanding General, Second Corps Area. Hugh Aloysius Drum at 59 is the ranking major general of the Army. He is vigorous, keen, ambitious to go on to the top after holding six high commands, including Hawaii. Until last week, most Army men would have bet that "Drummie" was about to go on to Malin Craig...
Commander-in-Chief Franklin Roosevelt last week dipped down past Hugh Drum and the 33 next-ranking officers of the Army. For his next Chief of Staff he chose a man who was a colonel until 1936, has been a real Brass Hat only since last July. Brigadier General George Catlett Marshall, Deputy Chief of Staff, at 58 becomes the only full general on active service, the first non-West Pointer since 1914 to be Chief of Staff. The last was Leonard Wood, who began as an Army doctor...
...Army jobs. West Point produced not one of the three officers who were seriously considered. By President McKinley's dispensation Hugh Drum went directly into the Army as a second lieutenant at 18-because his Army father was killed at San Juan. And the third man considered-Major General DeWitt, who now commands the War College-enlisted in the war against Spain...
...There will never again be so fruitful an opportunity to put our gold hoard to work in the interest of humanity in general and ourselves in particular...