Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unanimously confirmed the President's appointment of New Dealing, 62-year-old Ernest Gruening to a third four-year term as Governor of Alaska. The Senate's action came after two months' delay and was a triumph for a planeload of Alaskans who flew to Washington to defend him against attacks inspired by the territory's sourdough millionaire, Republican "Cap" Austin Lathrop of Fairbanks...
Over Manhattan's towers floated a Navy blimp, its silvery sides bearing a message: "Navy Salutes Army Day." Higher up, Air Force and Navy fighters flashed down the blue spring sky in tribute. A task group from the Atlantic Fleet came in, spilled out its bluejackets to march chummily down Fifth Avenue with the doughs. In Army Day celebrations all over the U.S., the armed forces put on a spit-&-polish show of unity...
...minutes were lost running lines to outlets blocks away. Frantically, many a man fought his way into the building after relatives. Some succeeded, but most were driven back by heat and the smell of burning flesh. Building Superintendent Frank Ries went in to hunt for his wife and never came out again. Prospective Father Arnold Aderman watched his wife come down a ladder, got her home just in time to have her baby...
...called Mayor O'Dwyer a doublecrossing participant in "one of the most vicious strikebreaking cabals in the labor history of this great city." But the next day it was all over and Denny had left town. Bill O'Dwyer had the last word. Said he: "Denny Lewis came to town pretending he was half-horse and half-bear. Like every small-town bully, he was skull & bones, mostly skull. He came a month too soon. He should have come with the circus...
...California afternoon in San Marino, and the children raced each other across the lot-little Kathy Fiscus, 3, her sister Barbara, 9, and her cousin Gus Lyon, 5. Kathy fell behind. When the children looked back for her, she had vanished. Gus heard faint screams. Following the sound, he came to an open hole in a clump of weeds. The hole was only 14 inches across, and the pipe that lined it was rusted and corroded. Kathy had fallen into an abandoned and forgotten water well...