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Major Generals in command of Army Corps areas seldom stay long in one place. Their routine is to spend four years at home stations, three in foreign posts, then home again. The War Department wants them to get familiar with all U. S. fortifications. In a general shakeup of corps commanders last week the department announced these shifts...
...Quarters, Red Top, Connecticut, June 8--All the Harvard crews had a light day today, taking short rows in the morning and afternoon. Conditions on the Thames were so good that Coach Whiteside would probably have had time trials if the temperature had not been so high. Following a shakeup yesterday, the Freshman crew again rowed in the revised seatings, which appear to be permanent. The seatings now are: stroke, Lake; 7, Atherton; 6, Beane; 5, Prout; 4, Kernan; 3, Clark; 2, Walcott; bow, Farley; cox, McVickar...
...Navy Department last week announced a wholesale shakeup of 24 commands, due to age limits having been reached and tours of duty ended, to take effect throughout the year. Most important was the appointment of Vice Admiral William Harrison Standley, 60, to be Chief of Naval Operations, the Navy's No. 1 tactical post. At a date not yet named he will succeed Admiral William Veazie Pratt, who reached retirement age March 1. President Roosevelt wants Admiral Pratt to stand by until final disposition of the Geneva Disarmament Conference...
Only old Times typographical feature to survive the shakeup was the clock design at the top of the editorial page on the grounds that "it indicates the importance of the page and is a symbol of its significance," it has been there for 130 years, it commemorates the paper's "passing from youth to maturity...
...Conn., June 7--A drastic shakeup in the seatings of the crews at Red Top today saw Parker, regular Jayvee stroke, setting the beat for the varsity, while Cassedy rowed at No. 2. Yeomans, who has held the No. 2 seat, took Parker's place, stroking the Jayvees...