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Merriam was awarded his Oak Leaf soon after General Miles made his inspection of the ASTC quarters in Leverett. Merriam was responsible for the speedy conversion of the Bunnies former lodging into Army barracks. His men greeted his promotion with much enthusiasm...
Crossville simmers quietly in the scrub oak of the Cumberland Plateau, nine bumpy miles from the neat little county seat whose name it shares. In a rough rectangle, 2,400 ft. by 1,100 ft., stretches the barbed-wire stockade, two 12-ft. fences of 21 strands...
...Solution. McWilliams' solution is as simple and drastic as a bog-oak shillelagh, as controversial as a Donnybrook Fair. "The nation now possesses," he says, ". . . the will and the physical unity and the power to achieve what it should have achieved 50 years ago-total democracy in the United States." Congress must enact a "new Federal civil-rights statute." It must outlaw the poll tax in Federal elections and "Jim Crowism on all types of interstate carriers." It must pass a "Federal anti-lynching statute." To implement this policy, it must use the bludgeon of hard cash. All Government...
...Oak Park...
...eloquent of the U.S. at war. Among those honored were: < Two Roosevelts, father and son, respectively son and grandson of the great Teddy. To Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., assistant commanding general of the First Division, in which he won many a decoration during World War I, went an Oak Leaf Cluster for his Silver Star. The New Yorker this month reported from Tunisia on General Roosevelt: "He is at his best ... in battle; his gamecock strut and his slightly corny humor take on a new and attractive quality when exhibited under fire." Last week his citation reported that, during...