Word: latta
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Which Front? Back in Britain after a visit to Ottawa and the White House, Canada's Lieut. General Andrew George Latta McNaughton was preaching invasion through France and expanding his Canadian Corps into a full army. In Northern Ireland were several thousand U.S. troops, rarin' to go and practicing invasion tactics. More were coming: an Army colonel announced that Boston was to be an embarkation point for many troops and supplies (see p. 16). One subject of discussion was drastically intensified bombing of western Germany by both British and U.S. flyers...
...Canada's diamond-hard scientist and soldier, Lieut. General Andrew George Latta McNaughton, took straight to the President in Washington his theme for victory: brains, tanks and attack will win the war. Said General McNaughton, who commands Canada's overseas Army in Great Britain: "We are going to cross the Channel again. We are going to march through France and into Germany...
Hopkins Shares, given annually to the six highest ranking students, went to Harold B. Kuhn, Schottadale, Pa.; Ralph Lazzaro, Wakefield; Nathaniel Lawrence, Cambridge; Robert M. McNair, Latta, S. C.; John P. Voss, Salem, Ore.; and John L. Yenches, Cambridge...
Robert M. McNair 2Dv., of Latta, S. C., was awarded the Billings prize of $150, for the student in the Divinity School showing the greatest improvement in pulpit delivery...
...Canadian hamlet entitled to be proudest of the Dominion's expeditionary force is tiny Moosomin, Sask. That place is the birthplace of lean, dour, square-jawed Andrew George Latta ("Andy") McNaughton, 52, distinguished veteran of World War I (wounded at Ypres and Soissons), able artilleryman, chief of Canada's General Staff from 1929 to 1935, past president of Canada's National Research Council (his specialties: electricity and aeronautics), now leader of the first Canadian contingent and probable commander of all subsequent contingents...