Word: tasker
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Died. General Tasker Howard Bliss, 76, wartime Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army, chief U. S. member of the Supreme War Council, military adviser to the U. S. delegation at the Versailles Peace Conference; of an intestinal ailment (despite efforts of five members of the National Free Public Blood Donors who flew to him in a Marine corps plane from Philadelphia); in Washington, D. C. A veteran of Spanish-American, Philippine, Mexican campaigns, he served 48 years in the Army, was active until 1920 although he passed the statutory age of retirement...
Down the main street of Yerington, Nev. (90 mi. from Reno) moved a small circus parade. Swaying gracefully on the head of an elephant leading the procession sat Senator Tasker Lowndes Oddie. Perched upon a second elephant was Nevada's Governor, Frederick Bennett. Rocking on the hump of the show's lone camel came Lieut. Governor Morley Griswold. These three Republicans had come to town to campaign for reelection. Unable to compete with the circus, they had pocketed their speeches, joined the performance...
Last week the War and Navy Departments promoted all retired World War officers to the ranks they held in Wartime, as authorized by Congress last June. Accordingly Maj. Generals Tasker Howard Bliss, 76 (Chief of Staff, Sept. 22-Dec. 31. 1917), and Peyton Conway March, 65 (who succeeded Bliss), are entitled to wear the four silver stars of a full general whenever (rarely) they have occasion to appear in uniform. Notable among those permitted by the new law to wear the one broad and three narrow sleeve-stripes of the full admiral are: Henry Thomas Mayo, 73, 1916-19 Commander...
...summary: HARVARD NEW HAMPSHIRE Hurvich, Salmon, g. g., Greenwood Boldt, Taylor, Amazeen, c.pt. c.pt., Wagerman, Hawkes Clark, Robinson, pt. pt., Tasker Marshall, Brinckley, 1d. 1d., Colburn Dunn, Henderson, 2d. 2d., Chase Winter, Hodge, 3d. 3d., Dallinger, Sullivan Pattison c. c., Perkins Davidson, Gulick, 3a. 3a., Sluck, Parkson Briggs, 2a. 2a., Pinley, Hazzard Foshay, Sanders, 1a. 1a., Hagstrom Kuhl, Lay, Glenn, o.h. o.h., Walk Keck, Murphy, i.h. i.h., Butson, Plourde...
...Senator Tasker Lowndes Oddie of Nevada, driving to work at the Capitol, found that his automobile was not functioning properly. He telephoned a garage, ordered repairs, arranged that the garageman was to leave another automobile for his use. When he was through for the day, Senator Oddie went to the Capitol Plaza, picked out a shiny new Packard sedan, drove home in it. Next morning at breakfast he read in the newspaper that the automobile of his Democratic adversary, Senator Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri, was being searched for by the police. That, thought Senator Oddie, was too bad. When...