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...sleeve-stripes of the full admiral are: Henry Thomas Mayo, 73, 1916-19 Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet; William Shepherd Benson, 74, Wartime Chief of Naval Operations; William Sowden Sims, 71, 1917-18 commander of U. S. naval forces in European waters; also Hugh Rodman, 71, Hilary Pollard Jones, 66, Robert Edward Coontz, 66. Last U. S. Army officers to receive the rank of a lieutenant general (abolished as a regular Army rank in 1907, temporarily revived during the War), are Maj. Generals Hunter Liggett, 73, and Robert Lee Bullard, 69, Commanding Officers...
Parley. With high hope John Farmer watched the Governor of his State start for Washington to see the President. At the White House they assembled: Governors Caulfield of Missouri, Emmerson of Illinois. Leslie of Indiana, Cooper of Ohio, Conley of West Virginia, Pollard of Virginia, Weaver of Nebraska, Hammill of Iowa, Reed of Kansas, Erickson of Montana. Republican Governor Flem Sampson of Kentucky wanted to attend but did not dare leave his state lest Lieutenant Governor James E Breathitt. a Democrat, exercise executive authority to make political appointments. Governor Sampson sent Republican Senator John Robsion as his proxy. Governors Horton...
Chapin Jones, Virginia State Forester, asked Governor John Garland Pollard to urge his people to extraordinary care in setting blazes. In Georgia, where officials have been trying to educate people to adopt the plow-under method of spring clean-up as a means of soil enrichment, Governor Lamartine Griffin Hardman pressed his campaign for fire prevention among all planters...
...quartos, of which Mr. White had a very fine collection. The greatest collections of Shakespearean quartos are in English libraries, such as the British Museum. Even in this country, however, Harvard does not hold first place. The best authority in this field is the book compiled by Bartlett and Pollard, "A Census of Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto." This census of quartos, published by the Elizabethan Club at Yale, again indicates the superiority of the H. C. Folger collection. Out of a total of 886 quartos described in detail, Mr. Folger owns 124. The Henry E. Huntington library comes next...
...made. J. H. Smith '31 was chosen president, to be assisted by Robert Gilmor, Jr. '31 as vice president, T. B. Eastland '33 as secretary, and Isaac Harter, Jr. '33 as treasurer. These officers will serve as directors along with C. D. G. Breckinridge '31, M. S. P. Pollard '32, and H. W. Umphrey...