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Twenty-one years ago a robust Sergeant in Squadron A, New York City National Guard, was riding through Rock Creek Park, Washington, D. C. Suddenly he heard the familiar voice of Elihu Root, then Secretary of State, saying: "By order of the Secretary of War, Sergeant Stimson will report at once, in person, to the President of the United States." On the other side of Rock Creek he saw Secretary Root and President Roosevelt. Plunging into the rain-swollen, swift-flowing stream, he urged his horse across, arrived wet, triumphant. His summons was merely a Rooseveltian method of inviting...
...onetime Sergeant Stimson crosses another stream at the invitation of another U. S. President. This time it is the Gulf Stream, for last week Mr. Stimson packed his grip and left Manhattan for Nicaragua, where he travels as special representative of President Coolidge. He may interview among others Revolutionary Leader Sacasa; after a month will return to make reports, recommendations. Republicans hope that, through his intervention, the marines may be withdrawn from Nicaragua before their presence can be made an issue in the 1928 presidential campaign...
...blood was spilt on Shanghai soil as Chinese murdered Sergeant James B. Montague of the U. S. Marine Corps; police found his body later in the Whangpoo river...
...times Denver airmen flew at Monarch Pass in the continental divide. Six times they were flung back by a raging blizzard. On the seventh try, Lieut. Dan Kearns and Sergeant Clyde Plank of the Colorado National Guard, soared over. They flew to Silverton, Col., 200 miles from Denver, over crags and chasms no one had ever before crossed. All of Silverton, for four weeks completely snowbound, floundered over to the town baseball lot to see mail, food, newspapers and diphtheria antitoxin drop from the skies into a snowbank. The factory siren kept up a steady shriek. Oldest inhabitants ants shifted...
Died. I-See-O (meaning "Plenty Fires"), 75 or 80, last of the Kiowa Indian scouts, only sergeant in the U. S. regular army holding his position for life* of pneumonia; at Fort Sill, Okla...