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...Manila, General Malone will find the Governor General in the person of Henry Lewis Stimson, who was Secretary of War under President Taft,* and will salute the Headquarters Commander in the person of Major General Douglas MacArthur, twice wounded, twelve times decorated veteran of Vera Cruz and France...
...squashed at a single blow. Instead the Earth trembled very gently from 9 p. m. until 3½ minutes past, then settled down for the night. Though the tremors shook nine Mexican states only three deaths were reported and property damage was not great. At the famed seaport of Vera Cruz a strange streaky red glow in the night sky accompanied the tremors, which were strong enough to ring the Cathedral bells. Municipal water tanks at Mexico City trembled until they slopped over...
...good job as foreman in Pape's lumberyard, was determined everybody should understand he loved his wife. . . . Coming home from the yard at half past five o'clock Harry smelled a stew cooking as he climbed the stair of the duplex house, a dish he liked, and Vera cooked it with small round new potatoes, oodles of onions, peppers, spices...
...Stew, eh, Vera,' he said, going into the kitchen. She kissed him closing her eyes slowly. When she kissed him like that, closing her eyes, he felt that he had not known her very long and watched her moving around the kitchen. He sat down on a kitchen chair. She bent over the sink...
...Vera Cruz episode and the outbreak of the World War kept him much occupied with naval affairs during 1914. In March, 1915, he was appointed National Commissioner to the Panama Pacific Exposition, and visited San Francisco with the vice president, on the same trip inspecting various naval properties and ships on the Pacific coast. The year 1916 was wholly occupied in doing what was possible under the existing law in getting the Navy Department prepared for the threatened hostilities...