Word: 2nd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clive deserted the Church of Ireland (affiliated with the Anglican Church) for atheism. After a brief World War I career as a 2nd lieutenant in France, where he was wounded in the back by a British shell that fell short, Lewis graduated from Oxford with honors, tried a few years as a starveling poet, and in 1925 happily accepted his present post...
Died. Lieut. General James Guthrie Harbord, 81, World War I hero (he rose from the ranks to become Pershing's chief of staff, commanded the Marine Brigade of the 2nd Division in the desperate fighting at Belleau Woods and Chateau-Thierry), onetime president and board chairman of Radio Corp. of America; of coronary thrombosis...
...when the Washington housing situation was broom-closet tight, Texas' loud-mouthed Senator W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel bought the four-story apartment building at 115 2nd St., N.E. for $52,500, and started eviction proceedings against the 14 families who occupied it. He needed all 40 rooms for his family, he claimed. "We're not used to being fenced in down in Texas," Pappy explained without blushing. "Besides, we want some place to put a cookstove." The 14 families had to leave...
...United Nations, the U.S. pressed hard for a border commission to keep an eye on Greece's boundaries with Albania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria during the next two years. Russia, hinting it might veto, managed to delay the U.S. proposal. Washington let it be known that the 2nd Marine Division and the 82nd Airborne Division in North Carolina were standing by. These two units should be enough to handle whatever forces General Markos Vafiades, the Communist guerrilla leader in northern Greece, had at his disposal...
...they are largely tied down by occupation, supply and housekeeping chores. Of the 89 divisions in service when Germany fell, the Army has only twelve left. Less than three are available to join the Marines in immediate action today, and all of them are in the U.S.: the understrength 2nd Armored and 2nd Infantry, the 82nd Airborne...