Word: myer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Five nights before his 57th birthday, Franklin Roosevelt motored over to Fort Myer, Va. to a gala Army horseshow, proceeds of which (around $3,000) began this year's anti-infantile paralysis collection in his honor. With him he took Mrs. Roosevelt, horse-loving Harry Hopkins, and Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, currently under fire in the House...
...Fort Myer, Va., the Army's Third Cavalry Regiment last week lost its bugler. Plumpish, firm-lipped Staff Sergeant Frank Witchey, 46 (The Army reckons him 48 because he lied about his age when he enlisted 30 years ago), doffed his uniform, retired. With his retirement, history turned a page. He sounded taps for the Unknown Soldier, for many an -Army brass hat, for Woodrow Wilson, William Jennings Bryan, Leonard Wood, William Howard Taft...
...sack suit and felt hat the President went to a white-tie horse show at Fort Myer to see Eleanor Roosevelt ride a chestnut gelding called Badger, in the Useful Park or Road Hack Class. Mrs. Roosevelt survived eliminations but by prearrangement received no prize, only flowers...
Artillery. Novelty of the show was an exhibition drill by six six-horse units of the Black Horse Battery from Fort Myer, Va. For seven minutes each night they cut intricate didoes, ended by tearing around the arena at a dead gallop in two sets of three. As they swerved sharply at the last possible moment, the heavy guns skidded into the end boards, and, to the delight of the gallery, sprayed the ermine wraps and starched shirts of the socialite boxholders with great gobs of dirt...
...over, the Blues rested today before starting work for Brown Saturday. Experience has shown that the Bruins point for this game employing every possible means of winning it. Hope around town is that the first-stringers can run riot early and then the reserves battle it out with Denny Myer's linemen. At present the whole squad is physically in good shape...