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...announced: "If we can't have both people and grass in the parks, we will have people." When the War came he went abroad doing relief work among prisoners, only to return to go into training at Plattsburgh. Then he became a Captain in the Fifth Missouri Regiment and went overseas as Major of the 138th Infantry. Twice he was cited for gallantry in action, and he has the Distinguished Service Cross. In 1920 he stood against the late Selden P. Spencer for the Republican Senatorial nomination in Missouri, but lost. The next year President Harding made...
...Potsdam 74-year-old General Cixt von Arnim opened proceedings incident to the unveiling of a War monument, as follows: "I have the high honor, which His Majesty the Emperor and King entrusted to me, to dedicate this memorial to the Guard Regiment of the Empress Augusta Victoria. . . . The chief duty for us all is the fulfillment of our duty and loyalty to the articles of war and the oath to the flag which we swore to His Majesty...
...recently "Fifinella." Mr. Dean has been joint managing director of the Drury Lane Theatre in London since 1924 and managing director of St. Martin's Theatre, also in London. Before the war, he was director of the Liverpool Repertory Theatre, and at the outbreak of hostilities, joined the Cheshire Regiment. In 1916 he attained the rank of captain, and later became associated with the British War Officer, serving as Director of its Entertainment Branch...
...Camp Grant On the old rifle range at Camp Grant, Ill., two miles from the cantonment, a Negro regiment of the Illinois National Guard was engaged in routine practice with a one-pound Howitzer. Servicing of the gun was proceeding without accident, as on countless former occasions. Black bodies bent and sweated in accustomed rhythm. Periodically gunners tugged at their lanyards, set off the propelling charge of their shells with the monotonous routine of well ordered automita...
...Private de Fost granted the honor of reviewing his regiment? The honor was for gallantry in rescuing a woman in drowning...