Word: 14th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Terry Allen then buckled down to a year of mental labor. He entered Catholic University of America in Washington, took a B.A., won a competitive Army examination, was commissioned a second lieutenant Nov. 30, 1912. Less than a year afterward, on border duty with the 14th Cavalry in Texas, he saw his first action. In official words, he "pursued and captured a party of ammunition smugglers Sept. 13, 1913, near San Ambrosia Creek...
This week's Bungalow on the Charles goes to Wilford C. Doss of C. 4, who takes the hand of Miss Mary McCrae of his home town next Saturday the 14th at Harvard Memorial Church. Nice going W.C.D., and lots of luck...
...Last Week. For Benito Mussolini his seven last days as Duce started somewhere in northern Italy. He met for the 14th time with Führer Adolf Hitler. No one knew for certain what transpired between the two men. Where past meetings had been flamboyant, this one was subdued...
Summer skies over southeastern China burnt away to clear fighting blue last week, and the Japanese launched their annual offensive against the forward bases of the 14th Air Force. Four times during the first day, in waves totaling some 130 fighters and bombers, the Japs swept over two fields. Their objective: to drive the American Air Force out of the eastern lowlands back to the mountains, where it would no longer menace Japan's diminishing shipping. Their success: one U.S. plane destroyed on the ground, at the cost of 16 of their own shot down, a probable 19 more...
Next day the Committee's 13 members (the 14th member, Henri Bonnet, was en route from the U.S.) held their first plenary session, agreed on procedure, began discussions. The event was important, for it helped to clear a stifled political atmosphere, shifted emphasis from single personalities to group judgments. Said one pleased committeeman: "A democratic institution has been born...