Word: john
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...title created for "but never accepted by George Washington, conferred afterwards upon only four officers: Grant, Sherman, Sheridan (Civil War), Pershing. Although he retired in 1924, John J. Pershing is still on the active list as General of the Armies, has the words lettered over his sumptuous, seldom-used office in the State Department...
Last week U. S. Attorney General Frank Murphy's clean-up man in Louisiana, Assistant Attorney General Oetje John Rogge, collared one of the Big Three. In New Orleans' Federal Court, slick, new-rich Seymour Weiss was convicted of using the mails to defraud, fined $2,000, sentenced to 30 months in prison. Convicted with him were Louisiana State University's ex-President James Monroe Smith, who must answer to 38 other charges and indictments; Dr. Smith's wife's nephew, John Emory Adams; and Louis C. LeSage, a previously suspended executive of Standard...
Last week C. A. A. certified two Negro schools: West Virginia State College at Institute, W. Va., whose President John Warren Davis lobbied in Washington for inclusion of Negroes in the program; and North Carolina's Agricultural & Technical College at Greensboro. If their students do as well in flying school as did 330 whites at 13 colleges which participated in experimental training classes last spring, better than 95% will be licensed, and Willa Brown's National Airmen's Association should grow apace. Of the 62,200 pilots (including students) now licensed by C. A. A. only...
...bombs which never materialized. And the Government began to realize that wolf-wolfing the populace every night was poor psychology. A reaction set in. In "safe" areas, 2,000 cinemas opened, reported exceptional business. Actors went on the road: 73-year-old Dame Marie Tempest in Dear Octopus, John Gielgud in The Importance of Being Earnest, Diana Wynyard in Design for Living. Christmas pantomime Producer Francis Laidler went ahead with plans for Mother Goose, The Ugly Sisters, three other ?40.000 productions in which the hoarse-voiced, hairy-legged, loosely hairpinned male comedians' parts would be taken for the first...
...Jump, Mother, jump!" and then saw him disappear forever; there was a Houston girl who, tossed into the water, saw a man beside her "just gasp and die"; there was a baby carried down the gangplank wrapped in a seaman's green-&-white-striped jersey; there was John Hayworth of Hamilton, Ont., father of ten-year-old Margaret Hayworth, whose head was crushed in the explosion, waiting at the pier for his wife to disembark. Mrs. Hayworth met him, and sobbed, "Dear God, John, she's gone...