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...rider's hell-for-leather zest could not make do for the good, grey experience required to steer a careering sulky behind a winning trotter or pacer. Bi was still learning the rudiments of the harness sport in 1898 when he was called to the Spanish-American...
Died. Colonel Ernest K. Coulter, 80, founder of the worldwide Big Brother movement to help delinquent boys, for 22 years (1914-36) general manager of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, onetime Spanish-American War correspondent for the New York Herald; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...result is that there were no generals among the nine 20th century Presidents, or among their defeated major party opponents. In fact, there are only five veterans among the nine 20th century Presidents and their eleven defeated opponents: Major William McKinley (Civil War), Colonel Theodore Roosevelt (Spanish-American War), Lieut. Alfred Landon (World War I), Captain Wendell Willkie (World War I) and Captain Harry Truman (World...
...impractical idealism." So concludes the State Department's George F. ("Mr. X") Kennan, who left his job as State's top policy-planner last year for a sabbatical at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Ever since the U.S. blundered into global responsibilities in the Spanish-American War, says Kennan, its tendency has been to live in a dreamy haze, preaching moral principles but neglecting to keep the military strength to make its voice important-until crisis was upon...
...battle history of the 24th gave solid proof of the military wisdom of Ridgway's order. The 24th, all-Negro (except for officers) since its creation in 1869, stormed up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War. In Korea, under a mixture of white and Negro officers, it produced individual heroes (including a Medal of Honor winner), and it routed the North Koreans at Yechon in the first days of the war. But its Korea battle record was spotty; Negro troops in mixed units did better in combat...