Word: camped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt had, to Commander Stassen's private amazement, appointed him a delegate to the San Francisco Conference. But he was back with Halsey when the fleet moved into Tokyo Bay. There his big job was to get U.S. prisoners of war out of bondage. He began at a camp near Tokyo called Omori Prison Camp No. 8, was wildly cheered by gaunt...
...Cleveland, five of the nation's 67 surviving G.A.R. veterans turned up at their 81st annual encampment, elected one of their younger members, 102-year-old Robert W. Rownd of Ripley, N.Y., as commander in chief, prepared to look around for next year's camp site. EURJ In Alaska, after a look at Fairbanks' ili-famed row of brothels known as "the line," Dr. W. T. Harrison, a district director of the U.S. Public Health Service, said: "I did not think there was any place under the American flag where prostitution is as flagrant...
...Germany. They are chosen by local representatives of the American Friends Service Committee and are sent to Finland for ten-week periods. The men and some of the women work on construction; the rest of the women run the school, the nursery school, and cook for the camp...
Died. Gipsy Rodney Smith, 87, British evangelist whose gently persuasive voice pulled hundreds of thousands of repentant sinners to camp meeting altars all over the world for five decades; of a heart attack; on board the U.S.-bound Queen Mary...
American Novels (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). Bret Harte's The Luck of Roaring Camp...