Word: major
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are some 200 Infantry Colonels in the U. S. Army. Every four years one of them becomes a Major General simultaneously with his appointment by the President to be Chief of Infantry. This promotion came, last week, to squat, solid Col. Stephen O. Fuqua, 54, commander of the 16th Infantry, Governors Island, N. Y. He succeeds Maj. Gen. Robert H. Allen of Bethesda...
...same time President Hoover appointed a staunch lowan, Col. Harry L. Gilchrist, 59, to be Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service, also with the rank of Major General. He has been an Army medico since the Spanish War, active student of X-ray leprosy treatments and de- gassing processes...
Freshmen this morning will become acquainted with the mechanics concerning concentration. Beyond that, the significance of the meeting lies in the fact that the class is brought together with its interest focused on the subject of electing a department for major study. Turning all minds to this one topic is the service rendered in New Lecture Hall...
...Major Simon Willard, one of the founders was apparently the first to build on the site where the shovels are now digging. He located in 1634 where later the Hick's house was to stand. On the other corner of the area, another more eminent man settled directly opposite Dudley's home, the site of which is marked by a polished granite slab on the corner of Dunster and South. This prominent person was John Bridge, whose statue now stands so commandingly on the Cambridge Common. Bridge was a public man of ability, serving as selectman, school supervisor, deacon...
...people talked breathlessly of the chance that David Lloyd George may "come back." Certainly the odds show that he may quite reasonably expect to hold a balance of power between Laborites and Conservatives. None knows how to exploit such a situation better than the little Welsh attorney; the only major politician who has had stamina enough really to survive the war. Last week his energy and fire easily surpassed that of any rival; and both Laborites and Conservatives were in deadly fear lest the man who won in 1918 by promising to "Hang the Kaiser!" should hornswoggle the country, outsmart...