Word: 27th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ovation. Senator Alben Barkley formally nominated Franklin Roosevelt next afternoon, in 40 minutes of ponderous eulogy. Instantly the aisles were crowded with marchers, hundreds of delegates ably abetted by the leather-lunged 27th Ward-heelers who stooge for Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly. Placards which they had been holding face down as they sat were now waved high: "Roosevelt and Victory"; "Roosevelt and Lasting Peace." The organ, and a brassy band above it in the gallery, blanketed the loud speakers with furious music. Timed, the actual cheering for the President lasted only 14 seconds; after that the organ...
Scene V: John Touhy's. The caucuses ground on. Ed Kelly herded Illinois' 58 delegates out to Committeeman John Touhy's famed 27th Ward Club (across from the Stadium), where food & drink was free. Ed Kelly tried to get his 58 Illinois delegates to pledge for Truman. The Wallace men balked. Ed Kelly smoothly switched to his own Senator, Scott Lucas, of Illinois. By now the strategy of both camps was clear. The bosses would nominate all possible favorite sons, confuse and wear down the delegates, then try to push through Truman, or a compromise. The Wallace...
...27th Infantry Division, only Army outfit on Saipan, had a new commander before the island was finally taken: 49-year-old Major General George W. Griner, longtime infantry officer. The scuttlebutt: "Howlin' Mad" Smith had fallen out with the original division commander during the battle, summarily sacked him, put Soldier Griner in his command...
...first 14 days of land fighting on Saipan the U.S. had lost 1,474 dead, 878 missing, 7,400 wounded. Total: 9,752, of whom seven-eighths were marines of the 2nd and 4th Divisions, one-eighth Army, of the 27th Division (New York National Guard...
...final offensive to the north. Supplies flowed ashore at the rate of 10,000 tons a day-while the Japs, of course, had to fight on what they had. The captured Aslito airfield was renamed "Conroy Field," in honor of Colonel James Gardiner Conroy of the Army's 27th Division, who was killed at Makin last November...