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...McAULEY...
...JOHN E. MCAULEY...
...such gatherings produce the miraculous results attained by Manhattan's Tamblyn & Brown in 1926. At the opening dinner of a campaign to raise $100,000 for the Jerry McAuley Water Street Mission in New York, a wealthy coal dealer picked up his pamphlet entitled: The Man Nobody Knows. Profoundly moved by it, he leaned over and whispered to the chairman, who blanched, then bounced to his feet to quaver that the quota was achieved and the drive over...
...should not happen again. The fast-dwindling group of those who believed in preparedness wanted a National Defense Act to establish and keep the framework of an army, so that the next time the U.S. would be ready. Pershing was still busy in France; he sent Colonel John McAuley Palmer to give advice, and Palmer framed an act setting up stronger National Guard units, ROTCs, CMTCs and a Regular Army of 280,000 men. Pershing came home to testify before Congress. He wanted a democratic Army. This was a democratic Army. The bill was passed. But it was an emasculated...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew non-stop from Washington, D. C. to Mexico City in his Ryan monoplane Spirit of St. Louis, in 27 hr. He lost hours searching for the course from Tampico to Valbuena Field. †August 1920. Maj. Theodore McAuley, San Diego-Jacksonville, 19 hr. 10 min. September 1922, Lieut. James Harold Doolittle, Jacksonville-San Diego...