Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Daniel G. Arnstein is a very rapid character. Everything he does is fast-from spending money in Manhattan nightclubs to trucking freight and cracking down on labor agitators in his huge Terminal System Inc. of New York City, which controls among other things some 4,500 New York taxis. Firm friends, bitter enemies, a tidy fortune and fame as No. 1 expert in motor transport-all these he attained in a hurry...
...before he went off to jail for ten years for tax evasion, tall, bald "Nucky" Johnson got married. The 58-year-old political boss of Atlantic City for three decades took as his bride ex-Showgirl Florence Osbeck, 33. ≤≤ Molly O'Daniel, 19, daughter of Texas' Senator-elect W. Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel, married Oilman Jack D. Wrather Jr., 23, in the executive mansion at Austin. Pappy had invited everybody, but most of the 6,000 who showed up never got inside, ≤≤ Joe Louis was ordered to double his wife...
...case, Mr. Garand will hardly fare worse than the fathers of the Army's Springfield rifle, which the Garand is replacing. The Springfield was developed by-two civilian workers: Daniel J. Manning and John L. Murphy. Last fortnight the Congressional Record printed a letter from Daniel Manning's son (Leonard T. Manning of New York City): "All he [Inventor Manning] got from the Government for his 40 years of service and . . . the improved 1903 Springfield rifle was a small pension from the date of his retirement in October 1926 to the time of his death...
Among the great quotations about which the elect may need refreshing: King Ethelred's promise; extracts from the Magna Charta; the Virginia Bill of Rights; libertarian exhortations by J. S. Mill, Henry George, Wendell Phillips, Daniel Webster, Thomas Paine, Emerson, Milton, General Smuts, Bernard Shaw, G. K. Chesterton, Cordell Hull, Harold Ickes, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt...
...command the entire Caribbean defense area (Panama, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, six other bases), 57-year-old Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews (Air Forces) succeeds finicky, 62-year-old Lieut. General Daniel Van Voorhis (Cavalry). The Caribbean Defense Command is the biggest field job yet given an Army airman. The change is also a drastic remedy for one of the Army's sore spots. As General Van Voorhis' subordinate air commander, in an area where air defense is paramount, Frank Andrews had been kicked into a back corner, given little chance to do his all-important job. Already tried...