Word: caseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Robert Joseph Casey was back in Luxembourg sending alarming dispatches to his paper, the Chicago Daily News. Round-bellied, globe-trotting Bob Casey knows his Luxembourg better than any other reporter in the business. He first went there as an artilleryman in 1918, loved it so well that he stayed on to write the first of his 15 books, The Land of Haunted Castles. No alarmist is he. Last autumn, when Paris correspondents were worrying about German concentrations opposite Luxembourg, Reporter Casey coolly tooled through the German lines in a taxicab. Last week he had this...
...Reporter Casey was right and Herr Hitler's very apparent preparations were not a dodge to deceive his enemies, the Low Countries had good reason to be nervous. Nervous they were. Belgium called back all men who had been released from the reserves because of age. The Netherlands extended martial law to the entire country, for the first time since 184,8. Luxembourg, which has an Army of 475 (gendarmerie included), cannot defend herself and will not try to, but the Luxembourgeois, who stood four years of occupation in World War I, know that far worse things...
Because "this country is so diverse . . . that one's simply got to move about to build up a composite picture," Richard Gardiner Casey, Australian Minister to the U. S., an experienced pilot, purchased a plane for a series of air jaunts out of Washington. Said he jovially over tea at the Legation: "They'll be friendly air raids, of course...
Featured on page 1 of the News annual was a story by ponderous Correspondent Robert Joseph Casey, a Newsman from the ground up, who has been all over the world, covered murder stories in Manhattan, Washington politics, scientific voyages to the South Seas, everything a reporter could crowd into a lifetime...
...handful of correspondents who also covered World War I, Bob Casey hugely enjoyed covering World War II last week, because he thought it might be the last war he would ever see. Writing from the same hotel in France where he slept 21 years ago while Germans bombed the town, Veteran Casey told the News: "You get the impression that you have seen all this before, and will be looking at it a long time before you see anything else...