Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side of the thinning-maned Lion came a wide variety of men. notable examples of how the great debate crossed party lines. To lead the group on the floor came Missouri's Bennett Clark, still remembering how his father, Speaker Champ Clark, fought and distrusted another World War President; Wisconsin's La Follette, North Dakota's Nye and Frazier,. Michigan's Vandenberg, Idaho's Clark, West Virginia's Holt, Washington's Bone, North Carolina's Reynolds, California's historic Isolationist Hiram Johnson...
...Brauchitsch became chief of Group Command 4 in Leipzig, the jumping-off place to the top jobs in the German Army. By then the Army was in a turmoil. Hitler was impatient to begin his grabs and the Army knew it was not ready. Loyalties were split between the Army and the Nazis, and there was sharp disagreement between those who were willing to back Hitler in a bluff and those who counseled delay. Brauchitsch kept mum, but when the purge came and Blomberg and Fritsch lost their jobs,* his good friend Reichenau recommended him to Hitler...
After the catastrophe on the Somme in 1917, General Ludendorff was persuaded by a group of his junior staff officers to withdraw to a line running north-south behind the Canal du Nord between the Somme and the Scarpe River. By this move he saved his troops from a second Somme and shortened his line. More important, he gained the opportunity to prepare on virgin ground and far away from hostilities for defensive tactics which his bright young men, notably Colonel Fritz von Lossberg, had evolved for divisions after observing the French use for smaller units...
That number is expected to swell up to about 120 by Monday when the last Yardling football hopefuls will report for practice. Of this year's group there are 39 backs, 28 ends, 14 tackles, 15 guards, and five centers. The bumper crop of flankmen is headed by Exonians Charley Tobias and Johnny Shattuck...
...chief interest point for all Fresh- men is their own committee. After some two months of participation in the House's work certain Freshmen are selected by the Chairman of last year's group, Harry Newman '42, and they are given supervision of whatever projects they may wish to inaugurate besides the usual duties of gathering old books and clothes...