Word: witte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been selected for their tact, good morals and efficiency to guide the 4,000 Gold Star mothers and War widows the U. S. this summer is sending abroad to the graves of their sons, their husbands. Before these men at the hotel stood Major General John Lesesne De Witt, Quarter-master-General of the Army, spruce, military, full of last-minute advice. Gravely he informed them...
Next day 23 of the officers, mostly captains, sailed for Paris aboard the President Harding while General De Witt, sure that his guides would behave themselves under any temptation, returned to Washington to complete arrangements for the wholesale excursions. The first group of 255 women, largely from Nebraska, will sail May 7. Eighteen other contingents will follow during the summer. Each group of 25 women (average age, 65) will be provided with an officer to conduct them to the military cemeteries, a trained nurse and free medicines to guard their health. The free trip of two weeks abroad represents...
Forwards: Elmore, vice-captain. Fry, Griffith, White Burrage, Witt, Straus, and Farria; half backs: Kirkland, Carter; three--quarter backs; Newt. Cary. Williams, and Captain Snelling; full back; Carter...
Forwards: Elmore, Vice-captain, Fry, Griffith, White, Burrage, Witt, Straus, and Farris: Half backs: Kirkland. Carter; Three-quarter backs: Newt, Cary, Williams, and Captain Snelling; Full back: Carter...
...Protestant; 3) a Dry in whom Drys had complete confidence. Such a man was hard to find. In 1925 Secretary of State Kellogg and Associate Justice Pierce Butler of the U. S. Supreme Court had whispered in the ear of President Coolidge the name of William De Witt Mitchell for Solicitor General to succeed James Montgomery Beck. So great and good an impression had Mr. Mitchell as the Government's chief advocate made upon the Supreme Court that its members were not backward in whispering his name again, this time into the ear of President-Elect Hoover, this time...