Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...party motored over the roads on the Virginia side of the Potomac. It consisted of the President and Mrs. Coolidge, Secretary of War Davis, Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, Major General Fox Conner, Acting Chief of Staff of the Army, and Admiral Edward W. Eberle, Chief of Naval Operations. Suddenly the morning sky was riven by the 21-gun presidential salute from an artillery battery at Fort Myer. Just before 11 a.m. the party entered the gates of Arlington Cemetery and proceeded on foot to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A band played "The Star Spangled Banner." The President...
Then the defense began to call its witnesses. The first called was Brigadier General Amos A. Fries, Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service. He was called to refute a statement by Brigadier General Hugh A. Drum, Assistant Chief of Staff, that it would take 5,530 airplanes and 9,573,000 pounds of mustard gas to force the evacuation of the District of Columbia. General Fries believed that 1,000 airplanes and 40,000 pounds of tear gas would get rid of the civil population. Major Carl Spatz, D.S.C., flyer, told the Court that Air service equipment is "obsolete...
Lincoln is a son of Joseph Lincoln, well known as the author of novels of Cape Cod life. Graduating from Harvard two years ago, he worked for a year as a reporter on the staff of the Philadelphia Public Ledger. During the past year he has been associated with the Curtis Publishing Company as a writer and editor...
General Naulin and the staff of the French High Command will winter at Rabat, on the Atlantic coastline, a few miles north of Casablanca. There they will be well out of the muck and unpleasantness, but at the same time on the direct railroad to Fez and the embroiled uplands. General Boichut, commanding the extreme southern end of the French line, will likewise be exceedingly comfortable at Algiers on the Mediterranean. Meanwhile General Marty will be marooned high and wet at Taza; and Generals Pruneau, Hergault and Billotte will occupy a series of sloshy, uncomfortable positions to the west...
...mitre. The celebrant passed in a rich red damask chasuble, followed by a deacon and a subdeacon in dalmatic and tunic. Last of all came the bishop of the diocese, the Right Reverend Chauncey B. Brewster, preceded by cross and candles and by his chaplain bearing the golden pastoral staff, emblem of his tenure. They proceeded between the lines of people up to the high altar, which blazed like a bonfire of lilies...