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...Gladish apparently criticizes General Robert E. Wood for having used an old Krag rifle on his hunting trip to Canada. ... I happen to know as a fact that General Wood, together with Colonel William J. Donovan ("Wild Bill") and a neighbor of mine, Mr. Russell B. Stearns, joined me in a hunting trip to the Yukon Territory in the fall of 1939. I also happen to know that on this trip General Wood led the party by bagging three grizzly bears, as well as an excellent trophy of the white mountain sheep. I further know that our toes are still...
...thought you would be interested to know how oldfashioned is one of your leading isolationists, General Robert Elkington Wood. When he comes up to Canada hunting big game he uses an old Krag rifle which puts his toes in great danger, also high-flying birds when he is shooting at deer or sheep. If your other leading men are as up-&-coming as General Wood, God help America in this high-speed...
...from ambushes along the hills-was endangered by a shortage of materiel. The Germans had captured the country's most important ammunition factory, at Kongsberg, arsenals at Nittedal and Raufoss, a powder factory, 1,000,000 rounds of rifle ammunition. This was bad news because Norway's Krag-Jorgsen rifles (6.5 mm.) will not shoot the 7.7-mm. bullet used by the Allies...
...capture of rebellious Leader Emilio Aguinaldo, the Army transport Thomas sailed from San Francisco to the Philippines with an expeditionary force of some 600 U. S. schoolteachers. The "Thomasites," 170 of them women, had been sent by an idealistic nation to civilize the new little brown brothers not with Krag-Jorgensens but with schoolbooks. Their crowning accomplishment was the training of the nucleus of 25,000 English-speaking Filipino teachers who now staff the island schools. Those Thomasites who stayed, weathered cholera and plague, married, raised families and survived into the Philippine Commonwealth, are today a dwindling group of oldsters...
Princeton Bow, Linsser: 2, Cooley; 3, Thompson; 4, Whiton; 5, Read; 6, Krag; 7, Cromwell; stroke, Hawkins; coxswain, Harry...