Word: macs
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When the student had completed his unappreciated task, Taft mounted the steps and, to the tune of The Beautiful Ohio, shook hands all around. Instantly brash placards erupted from the crowd, identifying one idea of what kind of cabinet Taft would choose; Mac-Arthur for Defense Secretary, Chiang-Kai-Shek for State Secretary, and so on. Taft, too busy charting his way through the confusion on the platform, ignored the suggestions...
Died. Francis Charles MacDonald, 77, poet, traveler, professor emeritus (since 1936) of Princeton University; after a long illness; in White Plains, N.Y. In 1905 Woodrow Wilson made him one of the first instructors in the now famed preceptorial system. Known as "Mr. Mac" to his undergraduate friends, he befriended and spurred countless Princetonians. He liked intimate poetry readings in his rooms, hated formal lectures ("To do the same thing twice a week was horrible"), and never qualified for his profession's union card, the Ph.D. An old bachelor who loved gossip, for years he kept an intimate diary...
This means that General Matt Ridgway's command (seven divisions) has taken two-thirds the amount sent to Mac-Arthur (21 divisions) for the march from New Guinea to the Philippines, about one-fourth the amount shipped by the Army to the entire Pacific Theater, including Asia and Alaska, in nearly four years of World...
...with maybe only ten or 15 rounds incoming all day, and the Chinaman stays over on his own side of the valley-well, those days it's not much of a war at all, I guess." He thought for a moment, and added: "But even on those days, Mac, it's still Korea. It's cold when it freezes and muddy when it don't and . . . say, Mac, do you think that business there at Panmunjom will ever amount to a damn...
...greeting, added that one of his favorite fighting men was still Lucius Aemilius Paulus, the Roman consul sent to fight the Macedonians in 168 B.C., who turned on his critics and told them either to come to Macedonia and fight with him or stay home and be quiet. Said Mac Arthur: "If I chance to meet Lucius Aemilius Paulus in the hereafter, I will be most happy to assure him that conditions have not materially changed in the world 1,900 and more years after the birth of Christ...