Word: charlestoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charleston campus etched with palmettos, amid yellow Moorish buildings, some 1,900 young men in oldfashioned, ball-buttoned, long-tailed military uniforms will this week pass in review before South Carolina's Governor Richard Jefferies. The Citadel, known also as the Military College of South Carolina, which vies with Virginia Military Institute for second rank (after Annapolis and West Point) among U.S. military academies, will be 100 years...
Citadel men fired both the first and last shots in the War Between the States. On January 9, 1861, Citadel cadets trained a battery of 24-pounders in Charleston harbor upon the federal ship Star of the West, which was steaming to the relief of Fort Sumter. This was the war's first hostility, though the struggle is usually dated from April 12, 1861, when Sumter itself was attacked. Each spring the best-drilled Citadel cadet is awarded tempo rary possession of a medal made from a piece of wood from the Star of the West...
When The Citadel in 1922 moved into new $3,500,000 quarters in northwestern Charleston its enrollment began growing from a mere 350 to nearly 2,000. Its scholastic stature has also grown under the presidency of General Charles Pelot Summerall, who retired from the U.S. Army (he was Chief of Staff) in 1931. About 60% of The Citadel's cadets now come from outside South Carolina, but most are still Southerners, by no means wholly reconstructed...
With two big butadiene plants almost completed (at Baton Rouge and at Charleston, W.Va.), 22 others to be ready for production between now and next July, synthetic rubber begins to look real in the U.S. Last week two American Chemical Society journals celebrated its birth by a presentation of the technical factors involved in the new industry. Forgotten now are the pains of the prenatal period (TIME, July 20) and the desperate remedies of the Baruch Committee (TIME, Sept. 21). More than a million tons of good synthetic rubber are in sight...
...leave the eminence of the Supreme Court, and its $20,000-a-year income for life, for a job that will be one of the meanest in the war effort. He well remembers his humble background: he was born after his father's death in a decrepit Charleston house, delivered the dresses that his mother sewed for a living, started as a law-firm office boy at 14, worked up to being a court reporter and studied law on the side. (He still takes his own shorthand notes at 150 words a minute.) Said Jimmy Byrnes last week: "Certainly...