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Career: His family was French Acadian, long isolated in the Mississippi Delta region. After public school, he was graduated by the Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. Followed two years of itinerant school teaching. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War he joined the 2nd U. S. Volunteer Infantry, was elected Captain of Company I. He served a year in Cuba, fighting through the Santiago campaign. As an assistant secretary, he went to the Philippines with the Taft Commission. Back in Louisiana he got a quick law degree from Tulane University, was admitted...
...there any heroic self-sacrifice on the part of the most of the men who formed the American Expeditionary Forces. Many of them were drafted, and used every expedient to avoid service. Others of the "veterans" never saw a transport. They have only the precedent of Civil War and Spanish-American War survivors to give them a moral basis for their demand, and thinking people agree that such a precedent should be broken...
...State. President Hoover accepted an invitation to the services. There was plenty of precedent. President McKinley dedicated in 1898 the Cathedral's large Peace Cross, symbolizing the end of the Spanish-American War. President Roosevelt helped lay the foundation stone in 1907. The service Woodrow Wilson attended on the Sunday following the Armistice in 1918 was considered the nation's religious observance of that event. After the opening of the Washington Conference on Limitation of Armaments in November 1921, President Harding led all its 34 delegates to a special Cathedral service through the Bethlehem Chapel doorway over which is carved...
...exhibitions have long been familiar with still-lifes by R. Dirks, latest of which is to be found at the 10th Anniversary Exhibition of the Salons of America in Manhattan. Sleeves rolled up showing the tattooed insignia of the 5th Artillery - his chief souvenir of a year in the Spanish-American War - stocky, solid, cheerful Artist Dirks is usually to be found working in his studio...
Destry Rides Again (Universal). Tom Mix rode a horse in the Spanish-American War long enough to get shot in the mouth. Subsequently he took minor roles in minor skirmishes with Chinese, Mexicans, Boers. For a time he served as a U. S. deputy marshal in Colorado. In 1910, when moving pictures were still flickering violently, he was offered $150 a week to appear in Selig films. Followed, mostly for Fox, some 180 Wild Westerns with 100 more or less leading ladies playing opposite him. Actor Mix retired from screen work in 1926, traveled abroad with his horse, returned...