Word: ryans
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...only National Guard officer who kept a top U. S. Army command during World War I was Major General John Francis O'Ryan, whose 27th (Rainbow) Division helped to crack the Hindenburg Line. Mustached, militant John O'Ryan brought home a rank of medals, an avowed love of peace and a deep conviction that war is better than some kinds of peace. Now 65 and retired to his law practice in Manhattan, he recently collected money to buy munitions for Finland, begged the U. S. to declare war on Hitler, denounced peace-at-any-price...
Almost as shocking to U. S. citizens would be an announcement that the U. S. and Japan were making up (see p. 39). Ostensibly on an independent mission, retired Major General John F. O'Ryan set off for a fact-finding survey of Japan, Manchukuo and conquered North China...
President Roosevelt saw and talked with many men last week. But one of them was Major General O'Ryan...
...with a law-school diploma in his pocket, he set up to practice in South St. Paul, in partnership with his friend Elmer James Ryan. As a result of overwork, he came down with tuberculosis. That slowed him up for only a short while. With the help of Ryan, a Democrat, he got himself elected a Republican county attorney in 1930. He returned the favor by helping Ryan become city attorney, U. S. Congressman in 1934, again in 1936 and '38. (This year Republican Keynoter Stassen will have to decide whether he is going to support Democrat Elmer Ryan...
...away from his father's Indiana farm at 13 . . . saloon brawls and street fights ... the first time he knocked out a man with his famed "corkscrew punch" (glorified left hook) and decided to call himself Kid McCoy . . . the night in 1896 when he stopped Tommy Ryan, world's welterweight champion . . . champagne suppers at Delmonico's . . . fights he threw and the chicanery he got away with . . . the carpet tacks he dumped into the ring to agonize a barefoot opponent in South Africa . . . early days of the century when U. S. sportswriters hailed him as the Real McCoy...