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...Court Bill. On his way through Nevada in July, Franklin Roosevelt encouraged the fledgling New Dealer by calling him "Brother Hilliard." Last week young "Brother Hilliard" crashed to earth as old Pat McCarran soared off witha 3-to-1 majority. Against Democrat McCarran in November will run Republican Tasker Lowndes Oddie, old-time two-termer (1921-33), whom Senator McCarran beat in landsliding 1932 by only 1,964 votes...
...recheck of the facts proves TIME correct. Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and Pershing are the only permanent generals in U. S. history. Tasker Howard Bliss and Peyton Conway March served as temporary generals during the World War, were created full generals on the retired list by an act of Congress in 1930. Charles Pelot Summerall and Douglas MacArthur held the courtesy rank of general while acting as chiefs of staff. Present Chief of Staff General Malin Craig will drop back to his regular rank of major general when his term is up. According to War Department records, George Washington, although General...
...they were. Inside lucky girls invited to the annual Poverty Ball received shiny frying pans as favors from a pile of 350. While couples syncopated to the tunes of Tasker Crossman, at the polished circulation desk, converted into a bar, free beer flowed aplenty. Dressed as a ragged girl, an ingenious graduate won the prize for the best costume--a loving cup fashioned out of a headlight, a hub cap, and two steel pipes...
According to Composer Foster's Biographer John Tasker Howard (Stephen Foster: America's Troubadour), the dwelling at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village was not built when Foster was born in 1826 but erected later on a lot once belonging to Foster's father near the real Foster Homestead. The homestead, since demolished, was, according to best authorities, replaced by the building now called Pittsburgh's Stephen Foster Memorial Home. Nevertheless, the Greenfield Village guidebook still lists its Foster cottage as the Foster birthplace. Says Henry Ford: "There is no doubt of the genuineness...
...start their prayers thus: "Our Father, who art a Nevin." Most famed of the tribe was Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, composer of The Rosary, who died in 1901. First biography of Nevin was written by Vance Thompson (1913). Published this week was a bigger & better job, Ethelbert Nevin* by John Tasker Howard (Our American Music; Stephen Foster, America's Troubadour...