Word: 24th
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Army the Negro enlisted man is no trouble at all. Today the 4,719 Negro soldiers in the regular Army are in four regiments (9th and 10th Cavalry, 24th and 25th Infantry), a few smaller outfits. All are led by white officers. But in World War I (as he will be soon again), the Negro officer was a problem that continually harried white men. In the U. S. and in France, white enlisted soldiers often refused to salute Negro rankers...
...last week events would not let the President and his aides forget the problem. A 24th, a 25th British destroyer were reported lost. How many more were damaged and out of action only the British Admiralty knew. The German censor released a picture of what happened to one British destroyer (see cut)-a reminder of Britain's need. A Republican paper, the New York Herald Tribune suggested that "the British are at once in a much stronger long-run position, yet in more urgent need of immediate assistance" than German invasion talk led the U. S. to believe...
...source of great satisfaction to find that Mr. Wright will deliver a lecture in Boston at Hancock Hall, the evening of January 24th. It is difficult to say whether or not he will again stir the audience with bursts of inspirational fire the way he did eight years ago, when he last appeared in Boston in the role of speaker. At any rate, it will probably be his last appearance in this part of the country, for being close to seventy now, he will undoubtedly return to his little experimental colony in Arizona and continue to produce theories and buildings...