Word: major
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doughty soldier is and has been Major-General Robert Lee Bullard, U. S. A. Retired. The record of his promotions, engagements and exploits as laconically set down in Who's Who occupies 48 lines of fine type. Not forgotten is this item: "Wrote the famous message at the opening of the 2nd Battle of the Marne, July 1918, which marked the turning point of the war, concluding with the words: 'We are going to counter-attack.' " The Bullard valor is concealed beneath a mild, diminutive exterior. Yet the soldierly Bullard conscience might serve as a model...
...Major General Amos Alfred Fries, who as Chief of the Chemical War Service should know most of such matters, treated Dr. Jones' alarums as rustlings from a mares' nest. The service, said he, had not asked that news of cacodyl isocyanide be squelched, for it knows nothing...
...pointing their sad morals, the authors have found it unnecessary to call any women to their aid; there are none in the cast and Helen Westley, the charming war-horse of the Theatre Guild, is therefore not called upon to add Wings Over Europe to Major Barbara and Strange Interlude, her present assignments. The male actors are uniformly as good as Guild casts should be, acting the preposterous caricatures of the Cabinet members. Alexander Kirkland is Lightfoot, the worker of wonders...
...Only one major South American telephone company remains outside I. T. & T. control. Canadian-owned, this company operates from Rio de Janeiro, is the largest on the continent. It would be rash to forecast the plans of silent Col. Sosthenes Behn. But no one would be surprised if the next purchase by I. T. & T. carried its network into Rio de Janeiro...
...known how to dicker with sensitive governments, greedy governments, when the Swedish Match Trust wanted another monopoly (TIME, Oct. 1). A fat check here, a guarantee there, and competition has pleasantly evaporated. Thus it was that, last week, the match king of Sweden could look with satisfaction at every major match-consuming country of the world, except...