Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...politician, a soldier, and a football coach all mixed up in a rumpus...
...soldier is General Smedley D. Butler of the Marines, the fighting police commissioner whom Mayor Kendrick found two years ago. He served as police commissioner for a year under leave of absence from the Marines. Then President Coolidge reluctantly extended his leave for another year?saying however that on Dec. 31, 1925, General Butler must return to the Marines. As the given date approached, it appeared that General Butler would leave Philadelphia. Mayor Kendrick announced that General Butler's assistant, George W. Elliott, would head Philadelphia's police. Last week General Butler changed his mind. He suddenly resigned his commission...
Hanford MacNider is 36. He is a banker, a soldier, a Harvard graduate. He hails from Mason City, Iowa, where he was born, and worked in a bank until he went to war. He served in the A. E. F. from Second Lieutenant to Lieutenant Colonel, at Chateau Thierry and Soissons, and after the War went back to Mason City and banking. His "buddies" (comrades) elevated him to State Commander of the American Legion, then to National Commander, because he had their welfare at heart...
Many people are familiar with the name of General Harry Lovejoy Rogers, aide to General Pershing and onetime Quartermaster General of the A. E. F. Most people know that last week in Philadelphia this eminent soldier died of heart disease. The following headline met the eyes of many thousand intelligent readers who propped the New York Times against their breakfast water carafes on the morning...
...Someone on the Times payroll merely failed to distinguish between two individuals. What was the difference? They were both named Rogers. . . . He put the General's "head" on the criminal's cleverness-wrote the history of a gunman's escape under the epitaph of a famous soldier...