Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood, Calif...
...hundreds of cities and villages mourned their men. Virtually all of the 2,300 of the New Mexico National Guard had been in the Philippines. Mothers and wives met from Deming to Rosewell to Santa Fe, still hoped their coast artillerymen were on Corregidor. Salinas, Calif, lost a company of infantry soldiers; California mothers wept with Filipino women whose sons were veterans in the Scouts, or lean-faced youngsters just out of the West Point grey of the Philippine Military Academy...
...Edwin C. Gras, of Cambridge, Mass., as Teaching Fellow in Alternating Currents; A.M. Harvard '40; Herbert Jehle, of Cambridge, Mass., as Instructor in Physics; Dr. Engin. Berlin '33; Jackson E. Morris, of Hoquiam, Wash., as Teaching Fellow in Physics; A.M. Harvard '41; R. Ross Lamoreaux, of Santa Barbara, Calif, as Bigelow Fellow, School of Education; M.S.Ed. University of Southern California '40; William H. D. Vernon, of Brussels, ont. Canada as Teaching Fellow in Psychology; M.A. Queen's University...
Died. Charles H. ("Duke") Wellington, 56, veteran cartoonist, creator (in 1914) of the still-existent Pa's Son-in-Law (Pa and Ma Splutterfuss and son-in-law Cedric); of pneumonia; in North Hollywood, Calif...
...since January from the first base: Lakehurst, N.J. A second base, at South Weymouth, Mass., is open. Operating squadrons will not base at either South Weymouth or Elizabeth City for a few weeks, until a stock of new blimps float in. The West Coast blimp squadron bases at Sunnyvale. Calif. Two more bases are to be constructed soon (Florida, Southern California); one more is contemplated in the Puget Sound area of Washington...