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...chief of the First Corps will be tough, profane, gimlet-eyed Major General George S. ("Georgie") Patton Jr., variously known to his men as "Flash Gordon," "Old Blood and Guts," "the Green Hornet." Henceforth Generals Gillem and Patton will be No. 2 men to Armored Force Chief Major General Jacob Devers. For Georgie Patton, the promotion indicated that he was finally, after various ups & downs, in solid with the Army high command...
...enough, Private Brooks was discovered to have been a light-skinned Negro. The Army's face reddened, but the Army's parade-ground voice never faltered. The ceremony went ahead on schedule. Four Generals were on hand, 30 staff officers, a platoon of soldiers. Declared Major General Jacob L. Devers, Chief of the Armored Force: "In this, the greatest democracy the world has ever known, neither riches nor poverty, neither creed nor race, draws a line of demarcation in this hour of national crisis...
...road-binding material, lignin is widely used in New Jersey and Washington instead of tarry binders. This use was developed in the U.S. about 1905 by Jacob Robeson, pioneer industrial student of lignin. Robeson Process Co., unlike Marathon, removes lignin from pulp wastes by evaporation rather than by precipitation...
...Jacob L ("Jakie") Webb, playful descendant of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, turned up in the Army, at Fort Meade, Md. He had been missing since the middle of October, shortly after he wed café-daffy Leonore Lemmon. A rubber-check charge long pending against him has been dropped...
Married. Virginia Middleton French, sister of Mrs. John Jacob Astor; and William Force Dick, son of the late Madeleine Force Astor Dick; in Manhattan. The bride's father is Francis Ormond French, blue-blood maverick who worked in 1923 as a cab driver, applied...