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...horses and mules. There were also 55 tractors, three tanks (not counting 27 worthless relics of the War) and a detachment of motorized cavalry. The three Christie tanks, eleven-ton monsters, were capable of traveling 60 m.p.h. on roads, 30 m.p.h. over hill & dale. The mechanized detachment of the ist Cavalry (at present stationed at Fort Knox, Ky., where the Treasury is building great underground vaults in which to store gold bullion) consisted of two fully armored, five-ton, six-wheeled cars, two "half tracks" (semi-caterpillars), a rolling kitchen capable of preparing meals at 40 m.p.h., a motorcycle...
...aged 20, Second Lieutenant Rice Means of the ist Colorado Infantry marched off to war in the Philippines. In the World War he was one of two officers not of the regular Army to be put in command of regulars. He was successively commander-in-chief of the Society of the Army of the Philippines (1913). of Veterans of Foreign Wars (1914-15), of United Spanish War Veterans (1926). After defeat for re-election to the Senate, he returned to Washington to look out for Spanish War Veterans' interests in Congress, help run their National Tribune and Stars & Stripes...
...witnessed it (TIME, Nov. 6, 1933). He had cancer of the liver and he caught a fatal cold standing in the rain at Clara Schumann's grave. On his death bed he spoke little, because his false teeth kept slipping. His last words were "Ja, das ist schon." His reference was to some wine that a friend had sent...
Christ or Hitler? Germany obtained the Saar in 1815, proceeded with a ruthless Prussianization which lasted over 100 years and enables Adolf Hitler to shout with substantial truth "Deutsch ist die Saar...
...Deutsch ist die Saar! The Saar is German!" roared uniformed Germans marching with brass bands up & down Manhattan docks as the voters prepared to sail. "We really won't vote when we get there!" giggled one young woman born in the Saar. "We are just taking the free trip-or at least...