Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...records of the War Department tail to show a Custis Knapp, either active or retired...
...Army War College opened last week at Washington; 89 officers of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps reported to perfect their skill through this post-graduate work. Said Maj. Gen. Charles P. Summerall, Chief of Staff...
...have never fought a war with trained and equipped troops, and we never shall do so. It is inconsistent with the form of our government and the psychology of our people to maintain adequate military preparedness. They would rather pay the price that has followed every war than spend a part of the amount in preserving peace...
Married. Major General Robert Lee Bullard, 66, widower, retired War-time commander of the American Second Army, to Mrs. Ella Reiff Wall, 52, widow; in Manhattan...
...Philadelphia, rising in 36 years from foreman to president. He has never given up his workingman's habit of reporting for work at 7 a. m. But it is as a salesman that he has chiefly succeeded. He sold locomotives in Europe when people thought Europe was too War-poor to pay for anything. He took his pay in oil, bonds. Once he sold an idea to an irate Irishwoman. She was the empress of a Philadelphia slum section he wanted badly to buy up for expansion of the Baldwin works. The lady had refused to sell and move...