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...Whipple Barracks, Prescott, Ariz., where his father was Army bandmaster. Graduated from New York University in 1910, he turned to politics, was first elected to Congress in 1916. Instead of warming his seat during the War he became a major in the Army, was sent to Italy in command of U. S. aviation forces, flew bombing planes over the Austrian lines. Later he returned to the U. S. and to Congress where he has been a centre of constant legislative turmoil. In 1929 he ran for Mayor of New York City as a Republican, charged Tammany Hall with most...
...Problem No. 13, which followed the Grand Joint Exercise in Hawaiian waters, was to assay the vulnerability of the Pacific Coast to a mighty naval armament convoying troops, and the possibility of warding off such an attack by a lighter, more mobile defending force. The Blue attackers, under the command of Admiral Richard Henry Leigh, commander of the Battle Forces, consisted of nine battleships, four light cruisers, 23 destroyers, one mine layer, four light mine layers, aircraft carrier Saratoga ("Sister Sara"), 104 planes, 18 auxiliary craft representing 30 troopships. The Black defenders, commanded by Vice Admiral Arthur Lee Willard...
Admiral Willard's problem was to locate the main body of Admiral Leigh's command. In that he failed to do this in seven days, at which time Admiral Frank Herman Schofield. commander of the Fleet, called off hostilities, Admiral Willard "lost" the war game. But even after the tactical discussion of the affray aboard the Saratoga this week, when a report will be drafted for the Navy Department, no layman will ever know who won, who lost. The Navy prefers to consider that neither side loses or wins a maneuver, but that all hands gain experience...
...Maundy, from the Middle English Maunde, the Latin Mandatum, means a command, refers to the "new commandment," John, 13:14-15'. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done...
...whole. It is probable, too, that Harvard students are less susceptible to the sensational appeals of Murray and Seabury than the mass of voters will be. Smith's third place on the Democratic ticket indicates that, while he has little chance for the nomination himself, he may command enough votes to enable him to dictate in some measure on the party platform. Both Garner and Ritchie, on the basis of the CRIMSON poll, will have to depend on their position as compromise nominees for their chances at the convention...