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...curt ceremony at Port-au-Prince command of the Haitian army passed from Lieut.-Colonel Clayton B. Vogel of the U. S. Marine Corps to a native colonel named Demosthenes P. Calixte. After 19 years of being ruled from Washington, the Republic of Haiti at last had a crack army of 2,500 men without a single U.S. officer. Last week 275 U.S. Marines sailed away. The rest were due to leave next week...
Editor Ross's authority on the editorial page will be reflected in a change of style rather than of policy. He will continue to give support to President Roosevelt and General Johnson. His views are liberal but not as far to the left as those of another crack Post-Dispatch news hawk, Paul Y. Anderson, who uses the Nation to blister his conservative adversaries. His successor as No. 1 Post-Dispatchman at the capital is Raymond P. ("Pete") Brandt, a onetime Rhodes Scholar who grew up in Sedalia, Ohio. A good hard-digging reporter, "Pete" Brandt was president...
...Seven crack horsemen from War Commissar Klimentiy E. Voroshilov's Red cavalry rode forth one afternoon last week on a pleasant green meadow across the river from Moscow. They dangled polo mallets from their wrists. With them rode a Philadelphia socialite who had won his one-goal rating with the Bryn Mawr Polo Club and the West Point polo team, Charles W. Thayer, personal secretary to U. S. Ambassador William Christian Bullitt...
...would give $10,000. The city agreed. But an architect's committee argued so long that the time limit for the city appropriation was exceeded and the Pulitzers had to make up the $10,000 difference. Finally selected was a waterproof Italian marble from Trieste which would not crack or chip. But it cost $35,000. Once again the Brothers Pulitzer made up the $10,000 difference. In less than 20 years they had spent $45,000 of their own on their father's $50,000 statue...
...Harold Dillingham, whose big house stands on Diamond Head Drive above the finish line of last week's race, has island interests in sugar. fruit, shipping and railroads as well as yachting. His brother Walter is a sugar and utilities tycoon as well as a crack polo player...