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Your comment ''Do all Marines agree?" which followed letters from Col. R. B. Putnam, U. S. M. C., and First Sergeant Newgarde, U. S. M. C., challenging your statement that the Marine Hymn contains many unprintable verses, has prompted the below-signed men to advise you that they absolutely concur in the views as expressed in both Col. Putnam's and Sergeant Newgarde's letters...
...First Sergeant, U. S. Marines U.S.S. Texas New York...
...another U. S. v. State wrangle for jurisdiction. In ice-strewn Buffalo Harbor on Christmas night a Coast Guard craft came upon a speedboat without lights. In it were two men. The coast guardsmen opened fire on the suspected smuggler, fatally wounding Eugene F. Downey Jr., onetime railroad police sergeant, son of a Buffalo police lieutenant. His companion escaped...
...first corpse Lieut. Graves saw in France was the body of a soldier suicide. Says he: there was a good deal of shooting in the War that never got into the newspapers. Two young miners hated their sergeant and decided to kill him. Later they reported to the adjutant: "'We've come to report, sir, that we are very sorry but we've shot our company sergeant-major.' The adjutant said: 'Good heavens how did that happen?' They answered: 'It was an accident, sir . . . we mistook him for our platoon sergeant...
...long-necked, chinless figure escorting him was. of course, the boy?now a middle-aged man?whom he had tutored and drilled so long, Fredrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, who was to have been a Kaiser. With them also came the other onetime princes?Eitel Friedrich, like a bully top-sergeant; Oscar, the simple farmer; August Wilhelm, the dreamy painter. There was a lull as they reached their places, then a renewed storm of hocking as Admiral von Schroeder called the toast for "His Majesty our Exalted War Lord...