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...large thick man, full jawed, pleasant-faced, Col. Grant will be 48 come Independence Day. His father was Maj. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, son of the Soldier President. The Colonel was graduated from West Point in 1903, did the usual round of foreign duty, married the daughter of Elder Statesman Elihu Root. He has three daughters of his own, but no U.S. Grant IV. In the War he was a member of the U.S. General Staff Corps, on the official fringe of the Paris Peace Conference...
...Army uniform, with a soldier of distinction inside it and its blouse-front ablaze with medals from four nations, has a high commercial value. The American Tobacco Co. appreciated this fact when, for a satisfactory compensation, it signed up Maj. Gen. Robert Lee Bullard, commander of the A. E. F.'s second army, as an endorser of Lucky Strike cigarets. The General is retired from the Army but in the advertisement which went the length and breadth of the land in newspapers and magazines he appeared in full military regalia, very stern, very distinguished, declaring: "An Army Man Must...
With gleeful gruffness, Maj. Gen. Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, intoned the citation: "For exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service . . . responsible for the organization, development and completion of a military program which brought success to the American arms . . . services of inestimable value to the country...
...Score Harvard 12, Yale 7 1-2, Goals--Glynn 7, Gerry 4, clark, Pony, Folger 6, Furgeson, Rathborne. Fouls--Furgeson, Gerry, Clark. Time- four seven and one half minute chukkers. Referee--Maj. J. W. Rafferty...
Hard-faced but mild-mannered Maj. Gen. John Archer Lejeune last week prepared to turn over the swivel chair in which reposes the Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps, to his sharp-eyed friend Maj. Gen. Wendell Gushing Neville...