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...brief but unusual shock passed through the whole War Department last week. No less a person than the Chief of Staff, General Charles Pelot Summerall, had been insulted. Junior officers about the Department knew the General had gone to the Army's proving grounds at Aberdeen, Md., had returned to Washington in a state df high indignation. With true esprit de corps they tried to hush up the whole affair...
What happened at Aberdeen was this: General Summerall, the Army's No. 1 professional soldier and by definition a wellspring of military knowledge, was watching the firing of a field piece. Some young officers, fresh from training, enthusiastically undertook to tell the Chief of Staff a few things about gunfire-how the piece is rifled, how the shell is twirled, how its trajectory is increased. Shocked by the elementary nature of their talk and their unconscious assumption that he did not know his military alphabet, General Summerall cut the explanation short, gave the officers a sound verbal spanking, stalked...
...Mary Garden was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, 53 years ago; came to the U. S. when...
...British adjective, meaning "sick as a result of gross intemperance in eating or drinking," was publicly applied to Mr. Snowden in the House of Commons fortnight ago by his immediate predecessor as Chancellor of the Ex chequer, the Right Honorable Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, M. P., onetime Lord Rector Aberdeen University...
...North Dakota State College of Fargo in Cass County, N. Dak., won first for the best group of five steers fitted, fed and shown. Three steers of this group of five also won first as the best group of three Aberdeen Angus Steers...