Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from action, given two months' rest, completely reorganized. One reason that World War I fell into so many clinches and deadlocks was that the 20% Axiom was often ignored. The Lost Battalion, having been reduced from 660 men to 190, was yanked out, given two days' rest, sent into the lines again. Never again can a commander who hopes to win a war afford to lose, as the 254th Bavarians lost on November 5, 1918, in the face of the fifth U. S. Army, all but seven of its 1,500 men. The morale of whole divisions, whole...
Today I was able to greet troops sent against fortified Warsaw...
...British Yarmouth, showed up in the Indian Ocean. The counterfeiting Emden took as her first prize a Greek, loaded to the Plimsoll with coal for British ports. The Emden did not sink her but kept her by as a bunker ship to be crowded with captured crews and finally sent to Germany. A fantastic series of sinkings, captures, cripplings began. What made them particularly fantastic was the gallantry, as well as the ingenuity, of Captain Miiller. He used tricks to attract the enemy, but in battle he proudly flew his own flag. Sometimes he had five or six boats gathered...
From Rome to London went Walter Duranty to represent the North American Newspaper Alliance. The Associated Press sent Drew Middleton, United Press Webb Miller. Others were Harold Norman Denny of the New York Times, John O'Donnell of the New York Daily News, William Harlan Stoneman of the Chicago Daily News, the Baltimore Sun's, Frank Richardson Kent Jr. (son of tart Washington Correspondent Frank Richardson Kent). Both the Los Angeles Times and Columbia Broadcasting System were represented by an ex-sportswriter, Bill Henry. National Broadcasting Co. chose 58-year-old Brigadier General Henry Joseph Reilly...
...going to do this afternoon." Three saloons later, Mr. Heidelberg confided to an L. S. U. sophomore that he was mighty worried about complaints against him that had been made to Acting President Paul M. Hebert. Thereupon George Heidelberg rode home to his house in Baton Rouge, sent the cabbie to the kitchen to brew him a pot of strong coffee, and pumped a bullet through his head...