Word: plattsburg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Interested in affairs military, he attended two Plattsburg training camps (1915-1916). When war came, he was commissioned a major of field artillery (311th), went to France in July, 1918, fought through the Argonne campaign, won the D. S. M. from the U. S., the Legion of Honor from France. He returned to his corporation law office in 1919, which he left on Aug. 8, 1922, when he was appointed to the Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator William Evans Crow...
Died. Leroy Scott, 54, author (No. 13 Washington Square, Partners of the Night); near Plattsburg, N. Y.; drowned swimming across Chateaugay Lake...
...York. Into a Plattsburg hospital early one morning last week two U. S. customs patrolmen carried a human body, dumped it on the floor, hurried away without giving any information except that they had "found it in the road." The body had been Arthur Gordon, 22, border rumrunner. Great was the mystery as to this shooting. New York authorities started John Doe proceedings. Then from Collector of Customs John C. Tulloch at Ogdensburg came this explanation...
...camp, which is under government supervision, is conducted on a semi-military basis, and is to field artillery what Plattsburg is to infantry. Harvard and Yale are together at this camp merely because they happen to be in the same corps area...
...surgeon, carved his niche in history as an administrator. When Military Governor of Cuba he led the fight to stamp out yellow fever, put a turbulent island in order, ready for independence in 1902. When Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army he became the "Father of Plattsburg, " the creator of civilian military training camps, a staunch friend of "preparedness...