Word: 27th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...petition drive is part of a national campaigns to solidity peace sentiment between now and the President's "momentous" pronouncement on May 27th, Student Union leaders feel that the President's last speech was postponed because of the reluctance of the people to support the administration on convoys...
...National Guard) Division at Camp Shelby, Miss. He was the first Regular Army officer in this emergency to replace the National Guard commander of a Guard division. He will not be the last. Of the 17 National Guard divisions which went to France with the A.E.F., only one (the 27th) had its original commander (Major General John F. O'Ryan) at the war's end. The others, along with many a Regular Army commander, had been axed by General John J. Pershing. At the slightest sign of fault or bobble, he broke offending officers, replaced them without mercy...
...Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, now in its 27th year of activity, has established itself as an important force in the affairs of the community of Cambridge. Growing rapidly since its founding in 1913, when 191 cases were handled, the Bureau now takes charge of an average of 750 cases yearly...
...other vessels were grounded. When the storm was over, the casualties-sailors, hunters, city dwellers -totaled 159. Four ships were sunk, over 1,000,000 turkeys were frozen, boosting the price on Thanksgiving eve. It was the Great Lakes' worst storm since 1913, and it came on the 27th anniversary of that bigblow...
Redheaded Margie ("Poor Man's Garbo") Hart is a stripteaser who plays Manhattan's theatres and the Midwest burlesque houses. This week she gave 62-year-old Major General William N. Haskell, commander of the 27th Division, New York National Guard, a shock. Sent to the 27th were 50 autographed copies of Margie's "most vivacious" photograph, with the promise of 4,550 more as soon as prints were ready. Margie sent her mementos out of practically pure patriotism. She wanted them distributed among the 27th Division, which will soon go into training far from the Manhattan...