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...officials and unable to use the semaphore system. As a consequence, his quarterback, Harry Montgomery, was unable to direct the eleven with the authority and poise he exhibited in previous games. Yet, after the game, Coach Snavely had the temerity to accuse Montgomery of poor field generalship face to face...
...from a U. S. expert who had the best possible chance of knowing. Brigadier General George V. Strong flew home from London, via Lisbon, after a month in Britain with a U. S. Army observation commission. The U. S. Army has always shown considerable respect for German power and generalship, but General Strong was optimistic about Britain's chances. He said that in Britain there had been "as yet no serious military damage"; that British claims of German casualties were "absolutely correct"-an inference that German air reports are faked (TIME, Aug. 19); that there would probably...
...Roosevelt. Still another, surprisingly enough, is onetime Attorney General Homer Cummings, who by running the Department of Justice on the basis of political patronage put the New Deal on many a spot. Tommy Corcoran once asked Sam Rosenman why grubby Homer Cummings was kept so long in the Attorney-Generalship. Rosenman answered: "You probably have forgotten that Cummings notified the Chief of his nomination for Vice President...
...lieutenant of artillery, helped save the town of Adigrat. He was credited with planning the victory of Zanzur in 1911, which wrested Libya from Turkey. His capture of Mt. Sabotino from the Austrians in 1916 led to the victory at Gorizia and won Colonel Badoglio his generalship. His Second Army was the one which cracked worst at Caporetto but this is excused by his admirers on the ground that he took over the command from a sick predecessor on a few days' notice, that the Austrian surprise attack centred on him. He helped General Armado Diaz and the Allied...
...Feckless William Shepherd ("Shakespeare") Morrison lost both the Ministry of Food and the Chancellery of the Duchy of Lancaster, but Neville Chamberlain and Captain Margesson found a seat for this faithful Party hack in the Postmaster Generalship, where he cannot be heckled as farmers and consumers have heckled him. Postmaster General Major George Clement Tryon was made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster with the additional sop of a baronage...