Word: letters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important a matter as this, regardless of one's feelings for General Pershing, the records should be kept straight. If you will remember, General Pershing had proven himself to the War Department to be a commander who could follow orders to the very last letter.** That was the type of a commanding officer whom Secretary Baker desired, and it was Secretary Baker and General Moseley, now of El Paso, who were responsible for the selection of Gen eral Pershing for his high command. Senectissimus may have had something to do with Pershing's marvelous rise from Captain...
...Croix de Guerre, a poet of local fame at least, and a successful businessman. My wife has never had the slightest inkling of this peculiarity-for, fortunately, I identified it early. And furthermore, we enjoy a certain social position in the community. The name I am signing to this letter is not the one which appears on my business letterhead, as I use this one only in connection with an endeavor in which my "alter ego" is known. This is the first time I have ever written the facts of my little peculiarity for publication. Fortunately I was able...
...letter of Thomas T. Gill in the issue of June 24 and your footnotes appended, concerning license tags on cars, was interesting. He named three States (your footnote adding another) designating their tags as front and rear, and likewise the three States had laws banning the teaching of the theory of evolution in state-aided schools. I wish to add that Kentucky also has the front tag designated as front and the rear designated as, "Kentucky for Progress." The last motto is a standing joke among Kentuckians and many motorists have been fined for mutilating their tags to obliterate this...
...Dillingham hospitality (long a bachelor, he married Miss Louise Gaylord of Chicago) that he is known as the "host of Hawaii." Few able visitors arrive in the Islands without a letter...
...Case. A Jew, one Leon Beron. was found murdered and robbed on Clapham Common. The letter S was roughly carved on his cheeks. A black-and-red silk handkerchief, a paper bag from Whitechapel, some stab marks evidently made by a tall, strong, left-handed man were the clews. Sleuth Wrensley tracked and arrested Notorious Murderer "Steinie" Morrison...