Word: compartmentally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cause of this strange journey, and principal passenger, was a bull-thewed man named Wendell Willkie. Up & down its rocking corridors, talking in torrents, gesturing in giant swipes, he strode. He lived and worked in the last car, the Pioneer, the mahogany-paneled private car in which Franklin Roosevelt once...
At 2 :30 a.m. it came. Through the ship's corridors ran the call "Action Stations." Fire gongs clanged. Out of the darkness darted a flotilla of speedy, 679-ton torpedo boats, charging in close to loose a shoal of their tin fish. Heeling over hard, the Ajax spurted...
In Vancouver, B. C. one day last week, a plump little Belgian lady in her 405 boarded a train bound east across the prairie toward Montreal. She was Anne Françoise Cox, Jimmy's bride of four years, on her way to Britain with Jimmy's ashes...
The two men talked far into the night. Prime Minister King slept in a Pullman bed in the compartment next to the President's, accompanied him to an Episcopal field service the next morning. At noon they issued a joint statement:
He was graduated from Northwestern University's law school, became an Army lawyer before he went overseas in 1918, became a troop movement officer and later a Judge Advocate (Army for lawyer) for the Service of Supply. Later he was professor of law at West Point, adviser to a...