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...three narrow 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...
...Engaged. Rodman Wanamaker II, grandson of the late great John Wanamaker, aviation aid to Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen of New York; to Miss Alexandria Van Rensselaer Devereux, Philadelphia socialite...
Died. Samuel Morse Felton, 77, board chairman of Chicago Great Western R. R. : at Chicago; after a paralytic stroke. Son of a railroad president, he went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, began railroading in 1868 as a rodman. He worked for many a road in the East and South, in 1909 became president of the C. G. W. Appointed Wartime director-general of military railroads by Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, he supervised the shipping of men to the Atlantic seaboard, of railroad supplies to Europe. received the Distinguished Service Medal. the Cross of the Legion of Honor...
...Rodman started his father writing his famed business editorials, which became a feature of Wanamaker advertising, helped to make his signature one of the best-known in the U. S. (Quotations from the Founder are still featured in the Wanamaker newspaper ads.) Author Wanamaker was apothegmatic. Examples: "Let us do things-do things." "No man can make horseshoes with gossip." "Success is not a haphazard affair...
...Heard Rear-Admiral Hugh Rodman, U. S. N. retired, say: "There is little or no use in having an inferior navy. You might just as well expect a lame mule to win the Kentucky Derby...