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The TD battalion is commanded by a red-faced, rednecked, reddish-mustached, beetle-browed Irishman, Lieut. Colonel James Joseph Deery, 40, who talked himself (age 17) into the Army in World War I, graduated from West Point in 1925. The battalion, first Army anti-tank outfit, was organized only two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Lessons of the Cumberland | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

Best-educated and most versatile branch of the Army is the Corps of Engineers. Officered by scholastic top-rankers from West Point and by graduates of such crack schools as M.I.T., Purdue and Caltech, the Engineers like to brag that they can do anything. In peacetime they build dams and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Red Necks | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

Last week, in the dairy country of northern New York, in the forests of Washington, along streams and through swamps in Louisiana and Wisconsin, the U. S. Army worked like terriers. In the biggest peacetime maneuvers in history, 300,000 regular, National Guard and reserve troops hiked, fought, slept in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Rehearsal | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

Writers present numbered 154-prim old maids, competent country women, rednecked dirt farmers, college students, lawyers, businessmen, one boy, a cross section of the Tennessean's State-wide circulation.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Letter Writers' Holiday | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

"I told him that if I were not under arrest and not on company property I thought I should be moving along to my cab. This merely caused me to be propelled forcibly to the steel mill's private police station. Once there I was confronted with a roomful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Steel Story | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

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