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...activities were so well organized. In Seattle, Leader Gene Mahoney of the Home Defense Infantry Regiment had appointed captains, majors, lieutenants with no advice from the military. In Mound City, Mo., Legionnaires were training with bow & arrow. In Omaha, stylish horsemen set themselves up as "Paul Reveres." In Louisville, Ky., the Legionnaires started to conduct a city-wide registration in competition with local authorities, were...
...should honor its first casualty of World War II. So a ceremony was arranged at Fort Knox, to name the main parade ground Brooks Field after Private Robert Brooks, killed in action near Fort Stotsenberg in the Philippines. Armored Force public-relations officers telephoned to the Mayor of Sadieville, Ky., Brooks's hometown, to ask him to invite the soldier's mother and father to the ceremony. Gladly, said the Mayor. But was the Army aware that Brooks's parents were Negro sharecroppers...
...Army tank, nosing across a creek near Fort Knox, Ky. on a slithery pontoon bridge, slid off into water up to its turret top. That annoying accident suggested to Lieut. Colonel Thomas Henry Stanley (16th Engineers) that it was about time the Army developed a new kind of pontoon bridge for mechanized warfare. The old bridge of planks on boats had not been radically changed since the Civil War, although as early as 1846 the U.S. Army was experimenting with rubber pontoons...
...Three cigaret companies (American, Liggett & Myers, Reynolds), convicted seven weeks ago of monopoly and conspiracy in restraint of trade (TIME, Nov. 3), were sentenced last week by a Federal judge in Lexington, Ky. Nobody will go to jail. But the judge's decision put a large segment of U.S. business on notice: competitors who do not use price as a weapon may be "conspiring" to fix prices even if they never actually meet to do so. To a great many lawyers, this is something new under the Sherman Act. One defense counsel called it the "Thurman...
...church parishes in the greater Boston district, were granted to Reginald A. Berry, Akron, Ohio; Russell R. Bletzer, Roslindale; Lewis V. Chapman, Rochester, N. Y.; John A. Dahlstrand, Newport, R. I.; Henry T. Dohrman, Compton, Calif.; John W. Eager, Fitchburg; William H. Fox, Dallas, Tex.; Edwin R. Freeman, Cadiz, Ky.; Max D. Gaebler, Watertown; James P. Johnson, Wichita, Kans.; LeMoine G. Lewis, Midlothian, Tex.; Eric N. Lindblade, Cambridge; Richard V. McCann, Dedham; William M. Nielsen, Haure, Mont.; John Pillsbury, Manchester, N.H.; Andrew G. Rosenberger, Cambridge; Thomas B. Smith, Bartlett, Ohio; Francis H. Wise, Falls City, Ore; and Leon E. Wright...