Word: sth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your issue of March 30, end of second complete paragraph, has-"In March the British 5th Army under General Gough ran before the last desperate German offensive." This, sir, is a pretty swinish thins to write: the sth Army did not run before any attack, at any time. My own battalion-one of all those who stood and fought-was reduced to about 80 men out of (on the 21st) some 790. The '"bite" resulted from the lack of reserves to support the first three lines in those last days of the month...
Career: Scion of well-to-do New England Quakers tracing their American lineage back to 1640, he, aged 2, was removed from his birthplace just off "upper sth Avenue" (21st Street) to Stamford, Conn. From private school he went to Yale (A.B. 1873) and Columbia (LL.B. 1876). After a brief clerkship in New York, he returned to Stamford to do legal work for Yale & Towne, famed locksmiths. Today he is Yale & Towne's board chairman. In 1879 he married Frances Hoyt who bore him two daughters, Louise and Katharine. In 1904 he dropped his corporation law practise long enough...