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...SERGEANT MORRIS GOODMAN...
...William went to America after finishing secondary school, did odd jobs in New York and Milwaukee. In 1908 he married a Philadelphia girl of Dutch descent, who bore him three daughters and a son. He set up a coffee and spice business in Kansas City, Mo., became a top sergeant in the National Guard in World War I. Then he hunted for oil in Texas - and found it, near Wichita Falls. He found more in Oklahoma and in California. In Louisiana he struck it really rich because he found not only plenty of oil around New Iberia but also Robert...
...General Hugh Aloysius Drum's First Army fell in for special Armistice Day formations. To hardened Regulars, newly mobilized National Guardsmen, Organized Reserves, one-year volunteers-all the components of the new U. S. Army except conscripts-officers intoned an order-of-the-day. To many a top sergeant, Hugh Drum's dicta on how to train the new army sounded new & strange. Expecting that it would, Hugh Drum had pointedly commanded his subordinates to post his order where their men could always see it. Excerpts...
...fighting has been done while the nation was at peace. Without the thrust of wartime patriotism and the applause of the folks at home, Marines have gone thirsty and lousy, won medals, died. Today a whole regiment camps in Shanghai, the hottest spot in the troubled Orient, where a sergeant's blunder might throw the nation into war with Japan. In such spots, the Marine Corps' mercenaries do the job as they have been taught to do it. Their reward will be another campaign ribbon to pin on the breast of their blue tunics...
...Sergeant Alvin C. York, 52, World War I's famed hero, now chairman of his draft board at Jamestown, Tenn., was so successful in urging registrants to volunteer before they were drafted, that he overtaxed the Army's local recruiting facilities. "They are rarin' to go," said...