Word: 27th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week 1,500 bankers, exporters, importers, shippers, diplomats took over San Francisco's Palace Hotel for the 27th National Foreign Trade Convention, gloomiest in many years. Convention managers spent hours on the telephone, trying to round up enough delegates with white ties and tails to fill out the head table. Palace Hotel officials could not remember a convention that had done so little drinking. For three evenings the bar of the Pied Piper Room was lined with fresh glasses, iced and ready for the Martinis for which the bar is famous. The ice in the glasses turned...
...only National Guard officer who kept a top U. S. Army command during World War I was Major General John Francis O'Ryan, whose 27th (Rainbow) Division helped to crack the Hindenburg Line. Mustached, militant John O'Ryan brought home a rank of medals, an avowed love of peace and a deep conviction that war is better than some kinds of peace. Now 65 and retired to his law practice in Manhattan, he recently collected money to buy munitions for Finland, begged the U. S. to declare war on Hitler, denounced peace-at-any-price...
...first 18 holes, during high wind and rain, Haverstick led the way. At lunch time he was 4 up on Brooke. When they returned for the second 18, Brooke began to creep up until he pulled even at the 27th. At the 29th, the Virginia Creeper was down again. At the 35th the match was all even once more; a 17-ft putt would put Brooke in front, with only one more hole to play. Looking heavenward in supplication, Brooke spied a rainbow arching over gloomy Mt. Equinox. "I've got a rainbow round my shoulder...
16th Duke of Norfolk, 27th Earl of Arundel, Premier Duke & Earl of England, turned up in a French hospital south of the Somme, having been wounded at Boulogne. Weetman John Churchill Pearson, Viscount Cowdray, grandson of multimillionaire Engineer Sir Weetman Pearson and non-playing captain of the British polo team that played in the U. S. in 1939, returned badly wounded from Flanders to have his left arm amputated in Durham Hospital. Upon hearing the news, his wife gave birth to a premature daughter...
...undercurrent of enthusiasm and even optimism" is indicated in the control of concer, according to the 27th annual report to the Harvard Cancer Commission by the chairman of the administrative committee, C. Sidney Burwell...