Word: sergeant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asked what kind of person Adolf Hitler was in the War, Albert Patrich, a Little Falls, Minn, farmer who was his Wartime sergeant, replied: "He was just a corporal, what could he say or do? Eight men were under him, that's all. ... I had 40 men under me. I had to give orders to him but he never talked much...
Boston did not know, possibly, that their reporters' only source of news was the Central Square desk sergeant; that a Cambridge policeman had made the four arrests (and had arrested, inevitably, the wrong men); that a Cambridge policeman was asking the pound of flesh; that the Post Commander was another Cambridge policeman...
...Sergeant Charles E. Donelon, who is credited with personally knocking down eight students, took the Bursar's cards of four in the course of the fracas. Donelon later announced that he would demand the surrender of the men from Dean Hanford this morning...
...field to test the wind, headed back for a landing. Watchers saw his Northrop attack plane spin, crash in flames, set a frame house afire, slice through a parked automobile. The occupants of neither house nor car were injured, but Major General Westover died with his crew chief. Technical Sergeant Samuel Hymes. Ordered to inquire into causes was Major Joseph L. Stromme, who guessed that Pilot Westover had flown too slowly, got caught in a downward thermal draft...
...Harvard men who filled the hard job of 1st Sergeant, he who roused the men at 6:00 A.M., lined them up for roll calls, turned them out for parades, were as follows: Raymond G. Jones '39; Cleveland Amory '39; I. Tucker Burr '39; Frank S. White '39 and Frank L. Southard...