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...kill their fellow men is not a pretty science, but in every army some one must study it. In the U. S. his name is Brigadier-General John T. Thompson, retired. He directed all the U. S. arsenals during the War and, as chief of the small arms division of the Ordnance Department, he improved the Army's standard Enfield rifle and distributed it promptly among the A. E. F. After the War, General Thompson set himself the task of perfecting a one-man machine gun and a self-loading infantry rifle...
...one-man Thompson machine gun, or so-called "submachine gun," was perfected some time ago and adopted by many a city police force as well as the U. S. Marines. It weighs only ten pounds, which is 100% lighter than any other weapon of similar functions. It fires 100 shots per minute and is valued for spraying death into a city street or narrow mountain defile. U. S. gangsters as well as police admire and use Thompson submachine guns. They are fired from the hip or from a rest on boulder, windowsill or automobile tonneau...
Washington, where visiting shows are thoroughly appreciated, was entertained last week by a one-man act which gained fame on European circuits last summer and on the Southern circuit last month...
...resourceful Hoover, whose conclusions are essentially a one-man job, and whose apparent concentration on the task immediately in hand gives no clue to the fact that he is at last equally interested in six other matters at the same moment--a man whose career is a successful rebuttal of the adage that it is a mistake to have too many irons in the fire...
During the ten years that followed, Painter Motley had to work hard. He waited on dining-car tables, did some light plumbing, some heavy coal-heaving and painted a lot more pictures. One of these, A Mulattress won him the Frank G. Logan medal and prize at the Chicago Art Institute Exhibition in 1925. Last week he achieved the honor of a one-man exhibition in Manhattan, an honor which, so far as is known, no Negro has ever before achieved. To the New Galleries came a motley crowd, including Ralph Pulitzer, part-owner of the N. Y. World...