Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gratitude. Franklin Roosevelt, assuming office as the economy President (a phase that did not last long), ordered a 25% cut in pensions for disabled veterans. When a big Legion rally in Long Beach, Calif, started to threaten a second march on Washington, National Commander Johnson hustled to the scene, talked down the first angry boos which greeted him, and persuaded the Legionnaires...
Nathan Lichtblau, 45, Manhattan plastics manufacturer who also owns interests in Palm Beach real estate. A perennial assistant to Democratic treasurers since 1936, Lichtblau served as Johnson's deputy, wheedled many a sweat-stained dollar from New York's minority groups when the going was tough. The money he raised paid for the newspaper advertising campaign launched in the campaign's closing days. Says Lichtblau: "I don't want a job or anything. I work purely as an amateur...
Weightman Geoffrey Tootell '50 of Cambridge has been elected track captain for next year it was announced at the team banquet held at the Varsity Club last night. John L. Moore '51 of West Palm Beach, Florida and Eliot House will be manager...
...Utah Beach on Dday, and it had hard fighting all the way to Cherbourg. Van Fleet was wounded, left the hospital to get back to his outfit while Bradley was on the way there to give him a medal. Bradley caught up with him, gave him the medal, and some advice: handle the next fight from a command post and stop working up forward on the firing line...
...times, Brazil's easygoing, samba-loving people are also her greatest drawback. Work comes hard in a country warmed over most of its area by a tropical sun. It is easy to procrastinate, or carioca-fashion, to spend the day on a white-sand beach. Until some of the hustle of industrial São Paulo can be injected into the rest of Brazil, the country will be the "land of tomorrow." Or, as Rio's Mayor Angelo Mendes de Moraes said recently, "the day after tomorrow-and don't forget the day after tomorrow...