Word: connecticuter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true number would be hard to establish. Both burial grounds were over grown with weeds and briers. Hanging from some of the crosses were dog tags with addresses in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Colorado, Rhode Island and Iowa. The Japanese had put up a rough cement cross with the inscription: IN MEMORY OF AMERICAN DEAD O'DONNELL WAR PERSONNEL ENCLOSURE ERECTED BY IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY But O'Donnell itself was monument enough...
Died. Francis T. Maloney, 50, New Dealing senior U.S. Senator from Connecticut; of a heart attack; in Meriden. In 22 years, he rose from counterman in an all-night lunchroom to city editor of the Meriden Record, to Mayor, to Congressman, to U.S. Senator. He had become known as an able though infrequent orator, a "Senator's Senator...
...Caldwell went out into the snowstorm, began to tinker with the television antenna. He made a discovery which so electrified him that last week he announced it in a press release: ELECTRIFIED SNOW FALLS IN CONNECTICUT...
Traitor's Progress. William Curtis Colepaugh, his renegade companion, was a weak-faced, gangling young man who had grown up in Connecticut, had somehow developed a sentimental sense of attachment to "beautiful Germany." He had graduated from Farragut Academy in New Jersey, flunked out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Grabbed later as a draft dodger, he joined the Navy, put on such a show of love for the Germans that the Navy discharged him. From then on, it was easy-for a while. Colepaugh sailed to Europe as a messboy on the diplomatic exchange liner Gripsholm, jumped ship...
...These include Pennsylvania's noisy Joe Guffey and Montana's wealthy, leftist James E. Murray. They also count on support from Utah's Elbert D. Thomas and Alabama's Lister Hill, as well as two freshman Senators-Warren Magnuson of Washington and Brien McMahon of Connecticut. Somewhere in the background was the ambitious C.I.O. Political Action Committee. Even further back was the man the C.I.O. has picked as a potential leader of the junta and a potential 1948 Presidential candidate: Henry Wallace...