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...recheck of the facts proves TIME correct. Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and Pershing are the only permanent generals in U. S. history. Tasker Howard Bliss and Peyton Conway March served as temporary generals during the World War, were created full generals on the retired list by an act of Congress in 1930. Charles Pelot Summerall and Douglas MacArthur held the courtesy rank of general while acting as chiefs of staff. Present Chief of Staff General Malin Craig will drop back to his regular rank of major general when his term is up. According to War Department records, George Washington, although General...
...board the Potomac for a weekend cruise on Chesapeake Bay were members of the President's personal staff and Indiana's Senator Sherman Minton-whose name was presumably the last crossed off the President's list of possibilities before he nominated Hugo L. Black for the Supreme Court...
...last month the gentlemen of the Department of Justice had combed their wits and the nation, and compiled a list of some 60 men. Further probing into the lives-private and public-of these 60 eliminated two-thirds of them. Last fortnight, with 20 names before him, President Roosevelt started the blue-penciling which would continue until but one name remained: that of the successor to Willis Van Devanter as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court...
...being that he has uncovered in a neglected corner of England's industrial back yard-the Yorkshire textile mill country-material for one of the sturdiest novels to cross the Atlantic this year. English critics have compared Song on Your Bugles with the work of a diverse list of writers ranging from Thomas Hardy and George Eliot to A. J. Cronin (The Stars Look Down); readers are mostly right who take such miscellaneous comparisons to mean that the author has achieved more than average originality...
...cushions, a rug, a container of ice cream. The mail was dried out in a Cristobal bakeshop, forwarded by plane. Small fragments of the Sikorsky scattered over a wide area led P.A.G. officials to believe that it struck the sea at high speed. No bodies were recovered. The passenger list made public last week disclosed that among the victims were two well-known Bureau of Air Commerce executives, Rex Martin and Garnett Quims Caldwell...