Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Sept. 12, under the caption of "A Lost Princess,"‡ the statement is made that Prince Ludwig Karl zu Lowenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg fell fighting against the United States in Philippine skirmishes of the Spanish-American War...
...matter of interest, allow me to quote the following taken from "The Military Surgeon" of August 1927 under the title "Reminiscences of the American-Filipino War, 1899" by Surgeon Rear Admiral C. M. Beadnell, R. N., C. B., K. H. P., at that time a Junior Medical Officer in the British Navy, and courteously "lent" to the American Forces, who were short medical officers...
...Magruder in every Department of the Government" (TIME, Oct. 3), Senator William Edgar Borah may have had Aladdin's lamp in his ample lap. A moon had not passed when, last week at San Diego, Calif., there rose up another "Magruder," this time in the Department of War...
...Navy Department's "Magruder" was plain-spoken Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder who commands only the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The War Department's "Magruder" was really a "Super-Magruder" because he was Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, and topmost soldier of them all. Touring the West to inspect Army stations, General Summerall last week stood up before the San Diego (Calif.) Chamber of Commerce and said: "The housing situation of the Army is a disgrace! Men are living in quarters at Camp Hearn like workers in a logging camp. The same condition prevails at other...
...until the United States-is able to support an army of sufficient size, until the Administration is aroused to the real need, nothing can be done and we shall in the meantime continue to perish by degrees." When these words reached Washington, D. C., it happened that Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis was away and also Assistant Secretary of War Hanford MacNider. The Acting Secretary of War was, for the moment, Brigadier General Briant Harris Wells, Deputy Chief of Staff. Perhaps it was to save General Wells the embarrassment of giving an order to General Summerall, his superior...