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...last count, General Chaffee's A. F. had 6,400 vehicles (tanks, trucks, motorcycles, motorized artillery, etc.), 26,000 men. The First Division was stationed at Fort Knox, Ky., the Second Division at Fort Benning, Ga. Next year, if all goes better with the armored force than with the rest of the defense program, two more divisions will be organized. At least two, perhaps six more will follow. Even then the U. S. armored force will be a puny rival of Germany's land fleets, which now have twelve full divisions, 55,000 tanks-and no Mae Wests...
Leaving Fort Dix, N. J., where he commands the 113th Infantry, Colonel Julius Ochs Adler, who manages the New York Times when he is not managing draftees, headed south for a "refresher" course for National Guard officers at Fort Benning, Ga. Easing himself exhausted onto his cot after a day's refreshment, the Colonel proclaimed: "I wouldn't have missed...
...First Congregational Church's outspoken, realistic Rev. Carleton Brooks Miller, Battle Creek officials decided to establish segregated, supervised zones for prostitutes who swarmed in after the 20,000 soldiers at nearby Camp Custer. Unchecked, unsupervised honky-tonks in Phenix City shot up the venereal rate at Fort Benning, Ga., nine miles away. Desperate officers talked of extending the military reservation to Phenix City, razing the town...
...next son Kenesaw Mountain Landis. "Thus," observed Biographer Henry F. Pringle, "was the blunder of General Sherman immortalized." Last week frosty old Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis saw a wish fulfilled. Baseballmen meeting in Atlanta fed him fried chicken, then stuffed him in a car, drove to Marietta, Ga., where the City Council presented him with "a little farm where I can look out and see Kennesaw Mountain...
...that Mr. Ramspeck had done last week was to win a final victory for the civil service over the spoils system. It came about because a slender, well-dressed Congressman from Decatur, Ga., Robert Ramspeck, 50 years old, looking 35, is a mild, gentle, quiet man who doesn't know when he is licked...