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...Harvard Liberal Club received a letter from the White House last night acknowledging the petition urging drastic naval disarmament which the club sent to Washington last Wednesday. The letter, signed by George Akerson, secretary to President Hoover, read as follows: "Your letter of February 26th with enclosed petition signed by 35 members of the faculty and 571 students of Harvard University has been received and I shall place it before the President. I know he will appreciate your sending him this petition...
...deep mourning. The Liberal Civic League had called the meeting "In memoriam of the death of Liberty and the 1,363 who have been killed in the war of Prohibition." Muffled drums rolled. A bugler blew taps. Chief speaker: Major General Clarence Ransom Edwards, retired, wartime commander of the 26th ("Yankee") Division, who asked for "laws promulgated by the ballot and not enforced by the bullets." When the band played the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," the crowd rose and cheered...
...issue of TIME, Aug. 19, p. 10 under Army & Navy you say, "The 26th is the 'Yankee Division,' National Guardsmen from Maine...
...Sirs: You give Carroll J. Swan the title of "Lieutenant." He is Lieutenant Colonel of the reserves and was a Captain in the War of the 26th Division. He wrote a book following the War entitled My Company. Swan is a graduate of Harvard '01-one of New England's leading advertising men. . . . J. M. SWEENEY...
Pained, both divisions hastened to entreat General Pershing to apportion the respective glories of the two Divisions, to decide whether or not the 26th's church was just a bit too close to the 2nd's Wood. General Pershing flatly declined to become embroiled...