Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, while the House Naval Affairs Committee approved a $300,000,000 appropriation to modernize the Navy's out-of-date anti-aircraft defense (TIME, Oct. 14), its square-rigged chairman, Georgia's Carl Vinson, had a Navy secret in his pocket-an official tabulation, prepared by the Navy's Bureau of Ships, of vessels under construction, showing types, numbers and the location of yards where they are being built...
When Blaik resigned three weeks ago to accept the Army job, it was his wish that McLaughry should succeed him. Announcement of McLaughry's appointment arrived after a conference among President Hopkins of Dartmouth, Director of Athletics William McCarter, and Carl Woods, President of the Alumni Athletics Council...
...adjured the outraged New York Sun in 1893. Called anarchist (for freeing three of the Haymarket rioters) and blamed for the great Pullman strike was Illinois' liberal Governor John Peter Altgeld. Years afterwards Poet Vachel Lindsay wrote a poem about him (The Eagle That Is Forgotten}, Biographer Carl Sandburg called him Illinois' greatest son after Abraham Lincoln. Last week, the University of Illinois law school prepared to inscribe over its doors-Altgeld Hall...
...Finland had won its war with Russia last winter, its hero would have been Red-hating Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. As a loser its hero was stocky President Kyösti Kallio, who was so modest that he shunned interviews, who clicked his heels and bowed low before reporters, who wore a knife in his belt as most Finns do, and who, the war over, turned resolutely to the task of rebuilding his country...
RICHELIEU-Carl J. Burckhardt-Oxford...