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...film opens at the outbreak of the World War, into which the boys are enticed by a hardboiled captain. Their misadventures in training camp are only intensified when they arrive in France, until they succeed in capturing a sizable part of the German army with a single tank. The rest of the picture deals with their attempts, back in America, to locate a man known only as Smith. Stan Laurel tries to identify the unknown with the cough drop brothers, and with "Al," unsuccessfully. In the end that old devil coincidence does the trick...
...schools and hospitals. With his wife, Princess Eugenia, granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I, Prince Alexander established National House in St. Petersburg where the poor were treated to bread and circuses. During the War he was director of sanitary services in the Imperial Army, escaped to Biarritz at the outbreak of the 1917 revolution...
Career: His family was French Acadian, long isolated in the Mississippi Delta region. After public school, he was graduated by the Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. Followed two years of itinerant school teaching. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War he joined the 2nd U. S. Volunteer Infantry, was elected Captain of Company I. He served a year in Cuba, fighting through the Santiago campaign. As an assistant secretary, he went to the Philippines with the Taft Commission. Back in Louisiana he got a quick law degree from Tulane University, was admitted...
...Hudson tubes. In those days Mr. McAdoo was a local hero. Forgotten, too, is the Secretary of the Treasury who converted Wall Street to the Federal Reserve. Only Mr. McAdoo himself seems to recall that it was no less a person than the elder Morgan who, at the outbreak of War in 1914, begged his advice on closing the Stock Exchange. All the East remembers is the Ku Klux Klan and the bad taste left by the 1924 convention. Time and distance have wilted the McAdoo reputation in Wall Street. Today he is thought of rather as a lanky, uncouth...
...Empire. Because of the von in his name and his family connections he was able to get a commission in the Third Guard Regiment as a Leutnant. Thirteen years later diligent Leutnant von Schleicher won a place on the General Staff and a promotion as Hauptmann (Captain). At the outbreak of the War Hauptmann von Schleicher found himself one of the office staff of brilliant, erratic General Ludendorff. Promotion came slowly. It was 1918 before Hauptmann von Schleicher won his majority. In the bloody days of 1919 German authorities suddenly discovered the usefulness of quiet, unassuming Major von Schleicher. When...