Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From his home at swank Edgewater Beach Hotel, Candidate Courtney eyed Illinois's rural downstate vote, mapped a campaign that would emphasize his longtime feuding with that old city slicker, Mayor Ed Kelly. There were two minor flaws in this bid for the farm vote. First, Tom Courtney is no bumpkin himself, but the son of a Chicago policeman. He spent his childhood selling papers on the city's streets. Second, his feuding with the Big City's Kelly is temporarily suspended. The new spirit of sweet harmony among Illinois Democrats was keynoted when Tom Courtney announced...
Presumably Alexander, Wilson and their generals had planned soundly enough, but there had also been some sound and speedy counterplanning by Nazi Field Marshal Kesselring, who held firm at Cassino and hustled in reserves from northern Italy, France and the Balkans to ring the beach...
...Marines have always been amphibious: they fight on the land and on the sea. They man Navy guns and they shoot Army rifles. But the toughest job in any military operation lies in that half-&-half area between the troop transport and the dry land of the defended enemy beach. Said a Marine sergeant who waded into Tarawa through the soprano whine...
Travels of a Marine. The Smiths have been travelers, like all Marines: they lived in Bremerton, Seattle, Manila, Cavite, Shanghai, Puerta Plata, Norfolk, Newport, Port-au-Prince, Quantico, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Long Beach, San Francisco, Washington, San Diego. In one two-year stretch they moved 14 times...
Died. Will B. Johnstone, 62, political cartoonist, creator of the barrel-dressed, chinless, widely syndicated "Little Taxpayer"; after long illness; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Old World-man Johnstone was taken over by the World-Telegram in 1931, first sent his "taxpayer" into the lists as an auxiliary in Mayor LaGuardia's successful 1933 campaign against Tammany...