Word: brewster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robinson, born Walker Smith, first saw a pair of boxing gloves at the Brewster St. Recreation Center in his native Detroit, where, up to the time he was eight when his family moved to Harlem, he used to hang around watching Amateur Joe Louis and local big shots. He never laced on a glove until he was 13-and then only because he was urged to by Trainer George Gainford, who ran a gym in Harlem...
Buffalo for the Brewster F2A, Catalina for the Consolidated PBY. (These two names were taken over from the British...
Buccaneer for the Brewster SB2A scout bomber...
...students sent a dummy tank to the White House with the inscription: "Dear President Roosevelt-keep America out of war." The Harvard Crimson said: "[We are] frankly determined to have peace at any price." The Crimson's President Spencer Klaw and the Yale Daily News's Kingman Brewster Jr. declared: "Intervention seems to us a fantastic moral proposition." Campuses throughout the land echoed their theme...
Yale. Last year's arch-isolationist News is still isolationist under holdover Chairman William Ford (who succeeded Kingman Brewster). But next January the News will switch; its next chairman will be Sterling Tomkins Jr., ardent interventionist...