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...clock one afternoon the assistant doorkeeper of the Senate spoke out in a loud voice, interrupting the deliberations of that body and announcing the arrival in the chamber of nine Representatives. Vice President Dawes immediately ordered that the visitors be assigned seats and then announced, "The Sergeant at Arms will make proclamation...
Thereupon the Sergeant at Arms cried...
...member of their fraternity. It mattered not to them that Germany's first President is long since dead (TIME, March 9, 1925). Still less were they mindful of his exceedingly pat remark: "It is as absurd to call me 'the Saddlemaker-President' as to call a great commander 'Sergeant-Fieldmarshal' because he once held the lower rank...
...Died "Sergeant Murphy," 16, first U.S. owned horse to win (1923) the British Grand National; at Bogside, Scotland, "destroyed after breaking a rear leg on a turn in the West Scotland Steeplechase. He was mourned by Stephen Sanford Jr., U.S. scion who purchased him for $10,000 and won $50,000, the Grand National Trophy Cup and many another pelf-filled purse...
...Sergeant...