Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...only National Guard officer who kept a top U. S. Army command during World War I was Major General John Francis O'Ryan, whose 27th (Rainbow) Division helped to crack the Hindenburg Line. Mustached, militant John O'Ryan brought home a rank of medals, an avowed love of peace and a deep conviction that war is better than some kinds of peace. Now 65 and retired to his law practice in Manhattan, he recently collected money to buy munitions for Finland, begged the U. S. to declare war on Hitler, denounced peace-at-any-price...
...show when the Chief is away. In the past 14 months, he has made six circuits of the continental U. S., side trips (mostly by air) to Hawaii, Panama, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and his deputy, balding 60-year-old Brigadier General William Bryden, has had plenty to do. Crack Artilleryman Bryden commanded artillery brigades in 1917-18, is the only member of the staff who was a general officer in World War I. When George Marshall called him he was C. O. of the 13th Field Artillery Brigade...
...smartly in the classroom as on the parade ground. Shattuck boys call themselves Shads, their food "garbage," the girls of nearby St. Mary's "saints," the demerits they get (for anything from an unmilitary snicker to an unmade bed) "soaks." Proudest Shads are those who make the Crack Squad of 16 boys, which drills in special uniforms, with the last remaining 1870 Army rifles, and is rated by Army men one of the best pre cision teams...
...explosions came from St. Louis, where the $257,000,000 Union Electric Co., one of its crack subsidiaries, earns for North American about $6,000,000 a year. Across the street from Union Electric on Twelfth Boulevard stands the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the great Pulitzer newspaper whose mission is policing the community. P-D's public-utility reporter, a thin-haired A. E. F. sergeant named Sam Shelton, had long been convinced that Union Electric was buying politicians. Two years ago he got a break when Union Electric's moose-tall aristocratic president Louis H. Egan eased...
This year, just a whip's crack from Westbury's famed old Meadow Brook Club, another hardy sport will bloom in September. On the site of the barren Roosevelt Raceway, into which four years ago a group of Eastern sportsmen sank $1,000,000 with the hope of bringing auto racing back to the East, another group of Eastern sportsmen has just sunk $100,000 to revive harness racing...