Word: major
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the junior officers only one is a university athlete; the other three are not even candidates for the major teams. The sophomore leaders do not include a letter-winner...
Irwin Hood ("lke") Hoover, has for 30 years been major domo of the White House. He knows all Washington by sight, and what is more, in what order it can be seated around a dinner table without offending anyone. He is of infinite utility around the White House. Last fortnight he telephoned a store in haste to order necessaries...
Patrick Jay Hurley of Tulsa, Okla., to be Assistant Secretary of War. Mr. Hurley, dapper, trim, cheerful, born in the old Indian Territory 46 years ago, began his military career as a captain in the Indian Territorial Volunteer Militia. During the War he fought through three major offensives, was cited for gallantry at Louppy, won the D. S. M. A trained lawyer, he has enriched himself in Oklahoma real estate, Tulsa banking. He is married to the daughter of Admiral Henry Braid Wilson...
Montevideo to Manhattan. From Montevideo, Uruguay, a Colonel Cesario Berisso, Major Roget Otero and Mechanic Dagoberto Moll took off last week for a 15-stage flight via the Argentine, Chile, Guatemala, Mexico City, Laredo, New Orleans, Atlanta, Washington, to Manhattan, U. S. Army flyers two years ago included most of this route, on their goodwill voyage. So did the Italian flyer de Pinedo. But not yet has a South American accomplished...
...second major step of the Committee, last week, was taken by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht when he reappeared in Paris after dashing over to Berlin "so as to attend my daughter's wedding." Quite apart from discharging his duties at these nuptials, Dr. Schacht conferred long and earnestly with President Paul von Hindenburg and Chancellor Hermann Muller. Accordingly he was able, when he returned to Paris, to mention for the first time a definite annual Reparations sum which Germany offers to pay. Although shrouded in official secrecy this offer was soon known to be 1,500.000,000 gold marks...