Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since the year-old Japanese invasion of China began, Japan has resented the fact that the seasoned veteran, General von Falkenhausen, German chief of staff of the Turkish Armies during the World War, was advising the stubborn if not wholly successful Chinese military strategists. Japan is an anti-Communist ally of Adolf Hitler's Germany and Benito Mussolini's Italy. She felt that Germans should not aid China, well knowing that the Germans constituted to a considerable extent the brains of the Chinese Army. Two months ago Germany obliged her Far Eastern ally by recalling the commission...
...Safety Board, the President appointed two licensed transport pilots, dashing, mustached Texan Tom Oates Hardin, vice-president of the Airline Pilots' Association, veteran of 10,000 flying hours with American Airlines; and Alabama-born Lieut.-Colonel Sumpter Smith, War flier, aeronautical engineer, since 1936 director of the Division of Airways and Airports of the WPA. The third Safety Board member was not named. Among these appointments, peeled political eyes could discover no one recommended for appointment by dictator-fearing McCarran. But if Franklin Roosevelt gave the back of his hand to Rebel Pat McCarran, it was at the same...
...years ago dark, spectacled, deliberate William Gellermann, a professor at Northwestern University, submitted a thesis for his Ph.D. at Columbia's Teachers College. A War veteran and member of the American Legion, Professor Gellermann had written a copiously documented but partisan analysis of the Legion.* Its sponsor was Teachers College's leftist Professor George Sylvester Counts. Last year, typewritten copies of this document got scant attention from the press. But last week, as the National Education Association gathered in .Manhattan (see col. 3) and the first copies of Dr. Gellermann's work came from the printers...
Died. Caroline Poulder King, 88, last surviving widow of a veteran of the War of 1812 (Private Darius King who served 54 days); in Cheektowaga, N. Y. She married King, then 73, in 1869, drew $14,149 pension (total 1812 War pensions: $43,216,480.57) after he died 17 years later...
Wimbledon (Sat. 10 a.m., 1:15 p.m., CBS). All-England Lawn Tennis finals described by veteran Tennist Bill Tilden...