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Major Generals in command of Army Corps areas seldom stay long in one place. Their routine is to spend four years at home stations, three in foreign posts, then home again. The War Department wants them to get familiar with all U. S. fortifications. In a general shakeup of corps commanders last week the department announced these shifts...
Major General Frank Parker, now in charge of the 6th Corps Area (Chicago), to command the potent Philippine Department. Dapper, diplomatic General Parker achieved a brilliant War record as commander of the First Division in the Argonne. South Carolina-born and socially inclined, he did much to revive the social life of Chicago's Fort Sheridan. With his wife and one of his daughters, Anne (who was last year voted the most beautiful girl at Smith College), he will sail for Manila next month...
...capture of Fort Riviera (whose existence Haiti's Minister to the U. S., Dantes Bellegarde, two years ago attempted to deny). Butler says he was sidetracked during the War because of an ''honest expression of opinion," was finally sent to France only to be put in command of the inglorious base camp at Brest. In 1924 Devil-Dog Butler made his biggest headlines when he was given leave of absence from the Marines to act as Director of Public Safety in Philadelphia. He announced that he would dry up the city in 48 hours. Two years later...
...National Labor Board got off to a good start last week as a strike- settler in other troubled fields. Without waiting for New York's Senator Wagner, the regular chairman, to return from a European vacation, Dr. Leo Wolman of NRA's Labor Advisory Board took temporary command. Baltimore-born 43 years ago, this liberal economist has lately shot up to a position of major importance at NRA headquarters. He got his education at Johns Hopkins (A. B. 1911; Ph. D. 1914), taught at Hobart, Harvard and Michigan before settling down in his present professorial post at Columbia...
...General Johnson was beginning to get his second wind. His health was a matter of national concern; if he cracked, the whole NRA campaign might go under. His eyes were swollen from lack of sleep. Flashlamps were making him flinch. His temper was running short. President Roosevelt had to command him to get a night's sleep when he flew to Hyde Park fortnight ago (TIME, August 14). Even the fatherly New York Times last week advised him to "ease...