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Decision on that point may be reached after this year's maneuvers, devoted to "Fleet Problem XX," the defense of the eastern shores of the U. S. and (in theory) the Republics of Latin America. An invading "White" fleet will try to outwit defending "Blacks," capture an operating base near the U. S. or Central America. This is no impractical game. Without such a base in Bermuda, the Bahamas or the West Indies, no European invader can get far in the Western Hemisphere. How much of a fleet is necessary in the Atlantic to prevent a foreign navy from...
...Ulin, 3b 0 0 0 1 0 0 Fulton, 3b 2 0 1 0 0 2 Soltz, lf 5 0 2 0 0 0 Bacon, c 4 0 1 9 3 0 Ingalls, p 4 0 1 1 1 0 Weiner, (x) 0 1 0 x x x Hoye, (xx) 0 0 0 x x x Hall...
...xx batted for Ulin in sixth...
Heading Volume XX was a four-page biography of the New York Times's late, great Publisher Adolph S. Ochs (1858-1935), written by onetime Timesman Elmer Davis. It was Publisher Ochs who made the Dictionary possible. When the American Council of Learned Societies met in 1924 to discuss a U. S. counterpart of Sidney Lee's great British Dictionary of National Biography, there was not $500 in the treasury to pay the officers' traveling expenses. Approached by his scholarly editorial writer, Dr. John H. Finley, Publisher Ochs promised that the Times would...
...qualify for the Dictionary a U. S. citizen must have made some "original contribution to American life." On this principle many minor Revolutionary heroes and obscure Congressmen are omitted, but Volume XX contains an ample history of Samuel Stockton White (1822-79), a Philadelphia manufacturer of dental supplies who notably improved the fit of false teeth. Bridge Expert Shepard Barclay contributes biographies of his late colleagues Dr. Milton C. Work and Wilbur Cherrier ("Quick Trick") Whitehead whose maxim was: "The law of averages is God's law and you can't go very far wrong on that...