Word: soldiers
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Major General Preston Brown, commander of the Panama Canal, to succeed General Parker in the Chicago area. An efficient "old school" soldier, General Brown is blunt, baldpated, muscular. Son of an Army colonel, he went to Yale, got his appointment to West Point while serving as an enlisted man in the regular army. His successor in the Panama Department is Major General Harold Benjamin Fiske who was last week promoted from brigadier and shifted from command of the Atlantic sector to command of the whole department. Large-boned, calm Major General Ed- win Baruch Winans, sportsman and socialite, commander...
...moment at every fair is the grand balloon ascension. One night last week at the world's greatest fair. 40,000 persons crowded into Chicago's Soldier Field to see what promised to be the greatest balloon ascension ever made-a flight to the stratosphere by Lieut.-Commander Thomas G. W. ("Tex") Settle. Ceremonies lasted seven hours. Soldiers and sailors paraded the field. Massed bands countermarched. Radio loudspeakers brought from Manhattan the voice of Professor Arthur Holly Compton. scientific director of the flight, wishing Commander Settle luck in breaking Auguste Piccard's 10-mi. altitude record...
Pennsylvania's coal-mining Fayette County heard the tramp of soldier feet last week for the first time since the great strike of 1922. Three hundred guardsmen were marched in under orders from Governor Gifford Pinchot which amounted to martial law. Eight thousand striking coal miners looked on stolidly as a week of petty riots and bloodshed ended in peace, only to flare up again in a rash of nasty fights which spread the general disorder into adjoining counties, stopping work in at least 30 collieries...
Last week a box came to the Museum from Sir Robert. Shaking with joy, Director Currelly pried the lid off, clawed out excelsior packing, unwrapped a surprisingly small package on top. It contained one quite ordinary and worthless lead soldier. The box held an entire regi ment of ordinary lead soldiers.* Mystified and vexed, Director Currelly popped the regiment back in its box, returned it to Sir Robert without thanks. Observers deduced the mystery's solution: the Royal Ontario Museum had swallowed whole a British newspaper story that the army Sir Robert was sending was the Charles Sandr...
When last week's nudity rumpus cast general suspicion on all the Fair's rowdy, stay-up-late activity, Major Lenox Riley Lohr, the hard-bitten onetime soldier whom the Brothers Dawes made the Fair's general manager (TIME, May 22), enacted a 1:30 curfew. On none of the three following nights was any patron of the hot spots evicted before 3 a. m.. The concessionaires complained that the only chance they had to make hay was while the stars shone. To them, President Rufus Cutler Dawes replied...