Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Few hours later dark news was brought to Hitler: Colonel General Hans Valentin Hube had died in an air accident. Last week at the Mosaic Hall of the Chancellery, Hitler, Göring, smaller Nazi fry met to mourn the 32nd Nazi general officer lost in World War II.
Finger in the Machinery. When trust-busting Roosevelt I appointed Holmes to the U.S. Supreme Court, Holmes at once disappointed T.R. by supporting Railroad Tycoons James J. Hill and J. P. Morgan in an antitrust case. Said the new Justice in his first Supreme Court dissent: "Great cases like hard...
Meadow Larks. At Long Island's Meadow Brook Club, Mrs. Hitchcock trained young poloists most of her adult life. When Tommy was ten she organized the Meadow Larks. Among them: F. Skiddy von Stade Jr., Raymond and Winston Guest, Mike Phipps, Douglas Burden, Pete Bostwick, Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney...
Then came the big news. A Republican freshman, Congressman Albert Lewis Miller of Kimball, Neb., suddenly remembered that he had in his pocket a couple of letters from General MacArthur-and released them to the press. Miller, once an able, prosperous physician, owned a hospital in Kimball until 1934, when...
First to land were the gliders, bearing U.S. engineer troops, jeeps, mules, shovels, road graders. The landings were not without accident: the commanding engineer officer was killed, other gliders crashed, some passengers came to earth surrounded by Japs and had to fight their way to the main body. But within...