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...command on the Arctic front. Said he: "Naval forces in the area are commanded from Seattle, while Army units are commanded from Anchorage, Alaska. That means the two responsible officers are 2,000 miles apart." The highest ranking military man on the Alaskan scene is Major General Simon Bolivar Buckner, who controls Army operations there, but when concurrent Navy sea or air action is needed, orders must come from Vice Admiral Charles Freeman's headquarters in Seattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Lots of Loneliness | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

Shrewsbury, Thomas Buckner Occ., Captain

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Insignia For Winter Sports Earned by 170 | 4/21/1942 | See Source »

...Thomas Buckner Shrewsbury '42, of Elizabeth, New Jersey and Winthrop House was elected captain of the Varsity swimming team Saturday, in the first election in the team's history wherein the entire squad voted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shrewsbury Succeeds Harris As Swimming Team Captain | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...Bank of England some $52,000 worth of U.S. and Canadian securities. The onetime portrayer of money-wizard Rothschild said he was an innocent in money matters. The Lord Mayor disagreed. On parole from the pen where he had been sent for hornswoggling Philippine Railway investors, once-affluent William Buckner said he was busted, that his wife Adelaide Moffett, blue-blooded songstress, is paying their $800-a-month household bills, A plea of Mae West's forgotten husband Frank Wallace for $1,000-a-month temporary support was thrown out of court after Mae said she had an overdrawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 6, 1941 | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

Died. Emory Roy Buckner, 63, member of the potent Manhattan law firm of Root, Clark, Buckner & Ballantine, one of the great trial lawyers of his time, who as U. S. District Attorney for southern New York during Prohibition years gained fame by padlocking Manhattan speakeasies, prosecuting former Attorney General Harry (Teapot Dome) Daugherty, sending Earl (Vanities) Carroll to Atlanta for giving false testimony to a Federal grand jury about publicly tubbing a show girl in champagne; after brief illness; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 24, 1941 | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

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