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...first full military wedding to be held at the Harvard Memorial Church, Marion Elizabeth Swift, of Milton, Massachusetts will marry 2nd Lieutenant Robert D. Cottam '40 of the 241st Coast Artillery. The regiment to which Cottam belongs is engaged in Boston Harbor defense...
...completely flabbergasted to read, in TIME, Sept. 1, that the Fourth Marine Regiment was sent [to China] from Honolulu...
Died. Colonel Earl James Atkisson, 55, onetime head of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Department; in Fresno, Calif. During World War I he commanded the only U.S. poison gas regiment...
...respects the right of the isolationists to express their views. "The very fact that a vigorous debate continues is a proof that individual liberty is still secure. Only when no voice of dissent is heard must we fear that a group of free men has been transformed into a regiment of slaves...
...Enemy is Stronger." It was bad from the very beginning. The men of Habe's regiment were soft after months of misdirected idleness. Their gas masks were inadequately sealed over the eyes; they had misfit helmets, tattered shoes, antediluvian weapons (Habe used an 1891, 20-lb. Remington). The first mild night air-raid revealed their cowardice: in an inn, when the lights went on again, steel helmets peeped shamefully from beneath the tables. One of dozens of Habe tab leaux: a shamed, helmeted face, trying to laugh it off, beside the knees of a peasant woman...