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Family Background: His father, General Arthur MacArthur, was a Civil War colonel ("the Boy Colonel of the West") who earned a Congressional Medal, became an Indian fighter in the '70s, a hero of the Spanish-American war, and Military Governor of the Philippines. He died dramatically of a heart attack while addressing a reunion of his old regiment in Milwaukee in 1912. Douglas MacArthur grew up at a succession of Army posts and, as a child at Fort Little Rock, was almost killed by an arrow during the last of the western Indian uprisings...
...coins, medallions, jewels, miniatures, tapestries, antiques, ivories, armor, enamels and sculptures. It was always open to visitors-with two notable exceptions. The first was the brother who had smashed his terra cotta. The second was William Randolph Hearst -"That I will never allow," snorted Lazaro. "He started the Spanish-American...
...American Revolution cost early-day taxpayers $370 million; the War of 1812, $113 million; the Mexican War, $97 million; the Spanish-American, $444.5 million. Estimated U.S. expenditure for World War II: $350 billion...
...served as a private in the Spanish-American War after he left Yale in '98, then became a gentleman farmer and got into Republican politics. He was a tall, polite, conservative man who was equally suspicious of reformers, liberals and loud neckties. He maintained a fanatical interest in the art of playing first base, and-through decades of complacency and isolationism-he dedicated himself to the proposition that the U.S. could not survive unless its civilians were trained to spring to arms...
Slow Boat. In La Crosse, Wis., Richard Klaber finally got a check for $374.30, authorized by Congress in 1945 to reimburse him for his passage home from Manila after the Spanish-American...