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...this time Big John and Square John are such sizable fellows that their boyish tussling shakes the U. S. oil industry to its foundations. Big John winds up in the dock facing a Sherman Anti-Trust suit. It looks bad for Big John until Square John repents, takes the witness stand to score on Uncle Sam in the most shameless courtroom bid for an Oscar since Paul Muni's blow for liberty in Zola. At this point Gable redeems himself with the first sensible line in the show. Says he: "I didn't know he had so much...
...police records for more than half of his 40 years, he has been charged with juvenile delinquency, unlawful entry, conspiracy, carrying a gun, grand larceny and homicide. In 1937 the Federal Government sent him to prison for two years for violating the Sherman Anti-Trust...
...honeypot for newsbees, an inspiration to fictioneers, the Military Intelligence Division collects, analyzes and supplies military information to the rest of the Army. The hush-hush province of ciphers, codes, spies and their works is all G-2's: bald, husky Brigadier General Sherman Miles, whose ancestry and career are as glamorous as any in the Army. His father was the late Lieut. General Nelson A. Miles, his grandfather William Tecumseh Sherman. In the first months of World War I he was military observer with the Russian armies, later served as a military intelligence officer with...
...Fifth division of the staff is the War Plans Division. Its job: making plans for use of the Army in war, making estimates of the size of the Army needed for any wartime situation. W. P. D.'s top man is longheaded, ambassadorial George Veazey Strong. Like Sherman Miles, he has been as much an Army diplomat as a field soldier, is as much at home in Geneva as he is in Washington. Cavalryman to start, George Strong fought Ute Indians in the West, Moros in the Philippines, went to Tokyo in 1908 as military attache...
...handling of the troop movements of the A. E. F. for the St. Mihiel offensive, of the movements of the Fourth Corps into the Argonne. For this job he got the Distinguished Service Medal. At 60, spectacled General Strong sits at the ornate desk once owned by General Sherman, likes to show visitors its empty whiskey compartment (capacity: 15 quarts...