Word: 14th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mile radius limit on travel be extended. However, more liberty off the station can be expected and Mr. Collins indicated that, through the efforts of Mrs. Elisabeth S. White of Harvard Committee on Relations with Wartime Personnel, accommodations will be ready for officers' wives when classes resume on June 14th. He also urged that midshipmen apply now for National Service Insurance, since cash will be made available for premiums, in place of allotments which cannot as yet be made...
This admission was made at the time Bedaux's 14th-Century chateau in France was being used for the wedding of the Duke to Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson. Thereafter Bedaux's fascist tie-up became more evident. It did not involve Windsor except through Bedaux's attempts to convert the former British king, among others, to a new Bedaux system of "economic and social appeasement." This theory thinly disguised Nazi ideology by advocating the intervention of the state in labor controversies and class frictions (i.e., improving the lot of the masses by putting them in their place...
...switches of the only portable electric chair in the world: a new $4,000 contraption on a truck with portable generator, chair, helmet, straps and electrodes. Last week Jimmy and his driver drove their silver-painted exterminator to the Pike County jail. Just before dawn Jimmy dispatched his 14th "client" - one Sam Porter who had slashed a throat too deeply and who, as he sat in the new chair, admonished "all young people to stay away from bad company...
...Iraq, a toy shop of the 14th Century was unearthed. It was stocked with 400 tiny terra-cotta figures wearing Moslem soldier costumes...
...Department announced formation of four new armored divisions, making 14 in all. Of these, the 11th is already formed, the 12th is forming, 13th and 14th* will soon get under way. (The 7th and 11th will compose the new Third Armored Corps under Major General Willis D. Crittenberger at Camp Polk...