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...same time President Hoover appointed a staunch lowan, Col. Harry L. Gilchrist, 59, to be Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service, also with the rank of Major General. He has been an Army medico since the Spanish War, active student of X-ray leprosy treatments and de- gassing processes...
...occupant of the business office by Raymond Mathewson Hood of Manhattan may look out on sooty roofs, but he will see them through a huge, tinted window with dim floral designs in the glass. The staunch desk is metallic, L-shaped, with a built-in clock...
...possible for a handy amateur to build a glider out of spruce or pine, wire, and fabric. Design is quite like that for a monoplane. (One popular German model amazingly resembles a Lockheed-Vega.) Wingspan may be up to 65 feet (span of a staunch commercial Ford trimotored transport). But 25 feet is more practical for beginners. The National Glider Association at Detroit will furnish blue prints. However best advice warns against amateur construction, or patching together of old motored plane parts...
Among ten baronetcies bestowed last week the only one of note went to famed Motors Tycoon William R. Morris, "England's Ford," maker of the staunch little Morris-Cowley and Morris-Oxford...
Quick curtain! For Politician Herriot, a staunch Republican, even a Socialist, does not quite dare to write the inevitable epilogue-Napoleon's reconquest of France...