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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proved it with the units he trained at Ramgarh in India. Crawling through the mud of the North Burma offensive, Stilwell looked like the hero he was. Chennault says it all when he calls Stilwell "one of the best divisional commanders the United States ever produced." The accent is on "divisional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Tragedy in Chungking | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...other side of the fence is the Navy. The sailors play a rough and ready game with the accent on checking and power plays and last year's aggregation dropped a 15-1 game to them. A win over either Maryland or Navy would be an ostrich plume in Maddux...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/25/1948 | See Source »

...this time the magnet of politics held the anti-Dev chips together. The victors elected unassuming 56-year-old John Aloysius Costello, K.C., Fine Gael frontbencher, as Eire's new Premier. To the comfort of tradition, Mr. Costello (accent on first syllable) was a devout Roman Catholic and family man (five children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: Collected Chips | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Committee workers will accent all students tonight with material for petitions and letters to congressmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 17 More Schools Join Marshall Plan Group | 2/26/1948 | See Source »

...delegates and assured his nomination, the late Will Rogers, who had stumped for Garner, came to Timmons and growled: "I've been neutral all my life . . . and the first time I come out for a man he throws his strength to a fellow with a Harvard accent. No good can come to a Texan who does a thing like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Milk & Thorns | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

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