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Next came news from Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. that Colonel Franklin R. Sibert, commander of the 2nd Training Regiment and an Episcopalian, had lent his personal weight to a St. Maurice campaign. A large painting of the saint was hung at headquarters, drawings of St. Maurice were displayed throughout the post, the officers' club was named St. Maurice Club, the gym was named after him, and wooden scrolls appeared on the barracks walls bearing the inscription: "We live, fight and die for God, country and St. Maurice...
Mixi. A midget-sized (1 pt.) portable plastic mixer for cocktails, milk shakes, etc. will be put on sale by the Sibert Mfg. Co., Newark. The mixer will run for four months of normal use on two flashlight batteries. Price...
What's in It for Me? Two weeks after LaMotta licked him, Robinson was inducted into the Army. His career in the service was short (15 months) and not always sweet. At Camp Sibert, Ala., he got into a row with MPs who prodded Joe Louis out of the Southern "white" waiting room in a bus station. Robinson refused to fight exhibitions unless Negro soldiers were allowed to watch. He was accused of jumping ship when the Louis troupe embarked for Europe...
...have consumed a goodly amount of time without producing either bills or resolutions acceptable to both Houses. But a sizable proportion of Congressional proceedings and almost half the space in the Record have been allotted to material designed for constituent consumption--eulogies of Luther Burbank, St. Patrick, and William Sibert; condemnation of Reds, the New Deal, and executive extravagance; reading excerpts from local editorials, school girl essays, or telegrams from prominent citizens. These opi, printed in the Record (and no Congressman is ever refused permission to insert anything in the Record) will some day appear in the mail-boxes...
Every dispossessed landowner, disgruntled businessman and refugee from the Russian zone, with tales of war plants in full operation, is sure of eager listeners at Sibert's headquarters. And Soviet Counterintelligence Chief General Sidnyev's little army of Communist businessmen and technicians traveling in the U.S. zone looks avidly for the German armies which Russians are sure the democracies are training for war against Russia...