Word: bismarck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing. Last week, having maneuvered Senator Nye into a three-cornered primary fight, Slippery Bill stumped the state with his own hand-picked candidate. He hoped to inherit: 1) control of two seats in the U.S. Senate; 2) all of North Dakota's Federal patronage; 3) overlordship of Bismarck's 19-story State Capitol...
...fought the Japs. A pious advocate of Confucian virtues, Warlord Chiang was also responsible, Gayn claims, for ten years of military bloodshed. Today, Author Gayn believes, Chiang is at once "a ruthless and intolerant man ... a pious Christian ... a canny politician ... a national unifier of the caliber of Bismarck and a petty and jealous political boss . . . consumed by a passion for power...
...Bismarck Sea may not be mine, but it is no longer his and he crosses it at his peril," said Douglas MacArthur a year ago. It had begun to be his a few days before when his Fifth Air Force swooped down on a warship-escorted convoy off New Guinea and sank it to the last ship...
Cavalry. Fortnight ago MacArthur sent burly Major General Innis Palmer Swift and his 1st Cavalry Division into a surprise attack on Los Negros, in the center of the Bismarck Sea. Last week "Bull" Swift was able to sit down on Los Negros with a bottle of Japanese lemon pop in his big hand and tell how the job was done...
Soon Admiral Kinkaid's PT boats will be using Talasea harbor as a base. Meanwhile Kinkaid's navy, composed mostly of small craft, roams the Bismarck Sea at will, bears down with flaming guns to silence Jap shore batteries. Even PTs serve prominently in such activities. MacArthur described them as "shelling" several Jap positions. Observers of the heightening South Pacific war concluded that heavier weapons have been added to the PTs' cluster of 50-caliber guns to help exploit the advantages and widening opportunities of the Bismarck...