Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elected from Colorado's First Congressional District since 1932. He campaigned with a splash: big billboards, solid newspaper support, and batteries of girls telephoning the citizenry. He hammered at one issue-New Deal bureaucracy. Democrats got a slow start, waiting for their wounded hero, 30-year-old Major Carl E. Wuertele (pronounced Wert-a-lee), to get his Army discharge (TIME, Feb. 7). They never did get rolling. War workers with good wages were apathetic; the party "ins" were soft. Groused one Democratic campaigner: "The only good Democrat is a hungry Democrat...
...spokesman for Lieut. General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, U.S. strategic bombing chief, reported that "all the losses we have suffered in the first four assaults on Berlin were replaced in a matter of hours. . . . Replacements are now automatic from the huge reserves built up in Britain to sustain the air drive...
...tried to volunteer for service with the Chinese Air Force in 1931. A top-notch San Francisco surgeon, she has flown thousands of miles to give her medical skill to her "sons," makes her son-given home their rendezvous and trophy room, numbers among her Kiwi names Lily Pons, Carl Van Doren, Helen Hayes, Katharine Cornell. After her red-hot friend's show she smiled: "Sophie is a wonderful person...
...Europe, the sleek Thunderbolts turned over their bomber-escort mission to other U.S. fighter planes and streaked for their British base. On the way they spotted a tempting enemy airfield, with planes lined up along the runway. It was too good to pass up. The flight leader, Major Walter Carl Beckham, 18-victory U.S. ace of the European Theater (TIME, Feb. 21), called four planes and roared down for a strafe...
Government 6, the History of Political Theory, which McIlwain was scheduled to give this spring, will be given by Professor Carl J. Friedrich...