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Died. Brigadier General John Fred Pierson, 93, next to last-surviving Federal general of the Civil War; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Direct scion of Yale's first President Abraham Pierson, he won his generalship...
...Richmond, Va., General W. McK. Evans received a letter from Marshal Henri Petain declining an honorary brigadier generalship, asking to be enrolled as a private in the ranks of the Army of Northern Virginia, United Confederate Veterans...
Ferry was responsible for the lone team touchdown with a plunge from the two-yard line, but much of the credit for getting the ball in scoring position goes to Peter, who showed excellent generalship. Both men blocked well, while Sherman did some fine running...
...assist the Attorney General. For three years with Mabel Walker Willebrandt, he practically ran the Department of Justice over the hulking shoulder of easy-going John Garibaldi Sargent. He climbed on the Hoover bandwagon early, rode it hard and helpfully through the campaign, expected as his reward the Attorney Generalship. When that post went to another. Colonel Donovan's friends bitterly declared that President Hoover had turned him down because he was a Wet Catholic. Between Colonel Donovan and the President there is still a breach...
...Captain Wood, Harvard's triple-threat signal caller, whose superb generalship of the Crimson eleven is one of the reasons for its present success...