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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...
...Other callers of the week were Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, to urge the appointment of Lawyer David E. Kaufman of Philadelphia as U. S. Minister to Egypt; the new Chilean Ambassador, Dr. Carlos Davila, to present credentials; Senators Charles Curtis of Kansas and Tasker L. Oddie of Nevada, and Governor Wallace Rider Farrington of Hawaii, to pay respects; Chairman Martin B. Madden of the House Appropriations Committee to talk flood control...
...Robert Lansing, General Tasker H. Bliss, Colonel E. M. House...