Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fair with a party of six." Minute later the Secretary of War and party rolled up in front of the Administration Building in a taxi. An out-of-breath reception committee greeted them, perspired with embarrassment, apologized that there had been no time to summon soldiers for a 19-gun salute. Over to the Army tent-camp strolled the Secretary of War, stood at attention while a squad fired A Century of Progress's first tardy salute. Followed by three private bodyguards, Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean went to a night club in A Century of Progress. Around her neck...
...bothered to notice a trim, erect, red-haired Army officer standing back among the onlookers. He was Lieut.-Colonel John Buchanan Richardson Sr., assistant adjutant of the Third Corps Area. Near Ville Savage, France one August day in 1918, as a major in command of the 306th machine gun battalion, he was covering a charge by the 308th Infantry. Suddenly he saw one company, led by an inexperienced commander, waver and fall back under the enemy's fire. "With great gallantry and utmost disregard of personal danger" Major Richardson leaped forward, rallied the faltering company, led it through bursting...
...Brussels meanwhile was not staying up either for the Cabinet crisis or for the royal birth. Belgians were content to be waked up at 6 a. m. next morning by a 101-gun salute which gave them a good idea of what Brussels was going to be told officially some hours later by her great War-Hero Burgomaster...
Stepping jauntily from his private car, Chichibu snapped a salute at the Puppet Emperor, then drew off his gloves and shook hands with Kang Teh. Japanese field guns began a long, long 101-gun salute for Prince Chichibu. When it was over he stepped into a Japanese limousine and whizzed off, leaving Emperor Kang Teh standing at the station. This, for a proper sovereign, would be the ultimate indignity, but the Puppet Emperor did not seem to mind. While the Japanese crowd rushed off to cheer Chichibu at the Japanese Embassy, the Emperor rode back to his palace. Hospitality...
Charles Roche, formerly of the Tedese Country Club, has been named are, and will pair with Bill Duffy of Trapelo, against Jesse (Siege-Gun) Guilford, who has just returned from the British Amateur, and Fred J. Wright, three times Massachusetts Amateur champion...