Word: hughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pershing." Command of the Army was (and is always) vested in the Chief of Staff at Washington under whom General Pershing served as a subordinate in charge only of the A. E. F. During the 19 months of U. S. war four generals in succession were Chief of Staff-Hugh Lenox Scott, Tasker Howard Bliss, John Biddle and Peyton Conway March, General March, long, lean, bearded son of a college professor, took command in March 1918 and carried the Army through the Armistice. Last week appeared his The Nation at War* to take its place beside General Pershing...
...horse leather soaked in oil and are filled with gull feathers. It took a top hat full of feathers to stuff one ball. They are a wee bit hard." Pride of the collection are a group of early 19th Century clubs from the bench of the late great Hugh Philip of Scotland. "Just as fine a piece of skill this chap Philip had with golf clubs as Stradivari with his violins. There is nothing sweeter than some of his sticks. Fact is, every one of them I got is a treasure. Thank the Lord golf sticks...
...FORTRESS?Hugh Walpole? Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). The third and next-to-last in Walpole's series about the Herries family of Cumberland...
...shared the orators' bouquets: tall, bearded Professor Alexander Winter, chief Soviet engineer, and Col. Hugh Lincoln Cooper of Manhattan who collaborated on the design and has worked on the dam almost since its inception. Under his orders all the turbines were installed, most of the concrete poured, and the job finished eight months ahead of the contracted time limit. To him went a special honor, the Order of the Red Star, highest Soviet decoration, never before bestowed on a foreigner. Said Col. Cooper...
...Manhattan arrived Captain Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford, Governor of the Bahamas, to place contracts for publicity and advertising to boost next season's U. S. winter-resorting in Nassau...