Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spot. In Palau, Hospital Apprentice ist Class Albert O. Seagle stood at his post, felt a Jap bullet strike his leg, fell on an operating table, received treatment. Elapsed time: 3 seconds...
Dana Fernald, Larchmont, New York; Robert A. Fisher, Birmingham, Michigan; Donald L. Garfield, Cambridge; Paul G. Garrity, Cambridge; Don L. Geeson, Alexandria, Virginia; Albert M. Gibson, Greenville, Michigan; Francis C. Gray, Jr., Boston; David Green, Valpariso, Michigan; William H. Guild, Hingham; Theodore R. Gullicksen, Quincy; Roscoe P. Hankin, Davidsonville, Maryland; Richard W. Homans, Canton; Dabney S. Johnson, Jacksonville, Florida...
Even as Senators talked on & on, Kentucky's Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler quipped that he was emphatically in favor of "hunting up another bill to kill the Kilgore bill...
...British artist who for five decades made competent portraits of celebrities, achieved celebrity himself with his anecdote-crammed memoirs (Men and Memories, Since Fifty) about such famed friends as Pablo Picasso ("the gigolo of geometry") and H. G. Wells ("a great literary cartoonist"). Sample Rothenstein sidelight on a celebrity: Albert Einstein once explained to him why an associate kept shaking his head as the great physicist talked: "He is my mathematician," said Einstein, "who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a very good mathematician...
John Collier became executive secretary of the American Indian Defense Association in 1923 and promptly tackled Albert B. ("Teapot Dome") Fall, then Secretary of the Interior, who was pushing hard for legislation to make the Indians Christians and also to open all of their lands to squatters. Fall's laws never passed, and Collier hoped for better times under President Herbert Hoover. But in John Collier's bitter summary, "Hoover didn't give a damn about the Indians either." New Deal for Redskins. By the time the New Deal had come to Washington, Collier was the No.11...