Portrait of an American: Charles G. DawesFull-length, sympathetic biography of the American lawyer and banker. |
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Learning that no drill manual existed for the landsmen who would follow , Dawes wrote one and sent it to Pershing . It was adopted as standard by the United States and used on all the transports . Those ships carried two million ...
Learning that no drill manual existed for the landsmen who would follow , Dawes wrote one and sent it to Pershing . It was adopted as standard by the United States and used on all the transports . Those ships carried two million ...
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But in Lincoln there lived one of Pershing's University of Nebraska cadets , Mark W. Woods . Grown wealthy by 1920 , Woods had made an effort to get his old instructor to make a try for the White House . He got little encouragement from ...
But in Lincoln there lived one of Pershing's University of Nebraska cadets , Mark W. Woods . Grown wealthy by 1920 , Woods had made an effort to get his old instructor to make a try for the White House . He got little encouragement from ...
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But Pershing saw it all . In October , 1937 , General and Mrs. Dawes had gone with General Pershing to dedicate the war memorial at Chateau - Thierry , and to visit the old battlefields , including , Dawes recorded , “ a place where ...
But Pershing saw it all . In October , 1937 , General and Mrs. Dawes had gone with General Pershing to dedicate the war memorial at Chateau - Thierry , and to visit the old battlefields , including , Dawes recorded , “ a place where ...
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| Title | Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes, Bascom Nolly Timmons |
| Author | Bascom Nolly Timmons |
| Publisher | Holt, 1953 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 344 pages |
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