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...during the World War. For a time that omission looked as if it might spoil his chances of gaining the post that is every Marine officer's ambition, Commandant of the Corps. And last November when Major General John Henry Russell celebrated his 61st birthday the chance became slimmer, for compulsory retirement looms for officers at 64. As of March 1. however, compulsory retirement claims Ben H. Fuller. Last week President Roosevelt named John Henry Russell, to his surprise and joy, to take command of all U. S. Marines...
...half hours late and she did not "waddle like an ambulating lump of cocoa butter." Hindered on all sides by thousands who thronged the square in front of the building to see the modern Queen of Sheba, her walk, though slow and halting, was nonetheless queenly. Were she slimmer, eyes on Lenox Avenue would raise a notch as she passed...
...Mayor, so many that it looked as though voting machines could not be used. But eliminating crackpots and perennial political protestants, the race for the nation's third most potent elective job was to be run by three men. Tammany's chances of victory had never been slimmer, for against it were arrayed not one reform candidate, but two. One was the most aggressive figure in the city's political life. The other enjoyed the patronage of the White House. Joseph Vincent McKee was the last of the major candidates to have his name entered...
...championship a financial success, was piqued. There were reports that if Mrs. Moody went abroad again next year she would pay her own way. Meanwhile, on the green blanket of turf that lies between the railroad tracks and the neat suburban cottages of Forest Hills, galleries slimmer than they have been for the last five years saw a week of pleasant ladies' tennis that contained only one major surprise...
Thirty years ago Dr. Diarmid Noel Paton of Edinburgh noted that the undernourished mothers of Scotch slums bore undersized children. He concluded, and the idea still prevails generally, that the thinner a woman keeps herself during her term, the slimmer her child will...