Word: iii
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Typical officer pay is that of General Grant's grandson, U. S. Grant III, who as an engineer colonel with 37 years' service is entitled to a maximum of $600 monthly - more than three times what his distinguished granddad averaged in the service. Lowest-paid commissioned officers are the $125 shavetails. Best-off are flying officers, who, to the great envy of Army groundlings, on flying duty get 50% more than the normal base pay for their ranks...
...nobly curving Regent Street was ripped by a time bomb. A German squadron boasted it had toasted victory in champagne in the sky, and then dropped the empty bottles on the palace which was bought from the Duke of Buckingham by one of Britain's German Kings, George III. Rougher ammunition blasted the palace five times, and tore at the spot where millions have watched the changing of the guard. Hit was the paneled house in Chiswick where William Hogarth retired during the summers to draw. So was the Gothic House of Lords-by an incendiary bomb, the fire...
...III. The Attitude of the House Masters...
Captain: Adelbert Ames III...
...Deal support got him re-elected in 1934. But he fought the President's Court Plan, opposed Term III. Last week, in Utah's Democratic primary. Oldster King went up against a 100% New Dealer, a former small-town lawyer, Representative Abe Murdock. When the votes were counted, Washington's King found himself deposed by a 3-to-1 landslide. Back to private life, at the age of 76, goes King, after 24 years in the Senate...