Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officers and 645 men of the British cruiser Orion, informing them just what happened while they were at action stations and unable to see. The Orion is commanded by Captain Geoffrey Robert Bensly Back, who issued the account, and is the flagship of Acting Vice Admiral Henry Daniel Pridham-Wippell, second in command of the Mediterranean fleet. This ship has been many times in U.S. waters. . . In the battle ... it was one of four cruisers which . . . exposed themselves to the fire of an Italian battleship in order that the British heavy forces might make contact. After the account was issued...
...casket went quietly down Texarkana's State Line Avenue to the little cemetery last week, Red-Hunter Martin Dies, Attorney General Gerald C. Mann, a horde of shorthorns were hot after the seat. Texas' House of Representatives petitioned Governor W. Lee ("Pass-The-Biscuits-Pappy") O'Daniel to appoint himself for the 90-day interim before an election must be held. Pappy held his peace, and pondered. Morris Sheppard was buried. The little people of Texas, the Anti-Saloon League of America, the high command of the Army mourned him most. They knew him best...
...Lone Ranger, under that name, came into being in this generation for a radio public, but under various names he has been alive for many centuries. He was Ulysses, William Tell and Robin Hood; he was Richard the Lionhearted, the Black Prince and Du Guesclin; he was Kit Carson, Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett; he was honest, truthful and brave-and so he remains...
...doves and that's all, to the delectation of New York World's Fair visitors, once observed: "If I fluttered past Hitler with my doves it would take his mind off war." Last week Miss Royce volunteered to help train pigeons for national defense. With Recruiting Officer Daniel Munster she fluttered off to Philadelphia's Reyburn Plaza, where she provided ready proof that even strange pigeons are drawn to her. Lieut. Munster took note of everything...
Nobody had been killed but everyone had been hurt. Shaken but lucid, 76-year-old Dr. George Crile, famed Cleveland surgeon, was pinned in his seat, but gave advice to his fellow townsman, Dr. Daniel P. Quiring, in first-aid work. Except for Captain Gerald O'Brien, the first pilot, who was out of his head, everybody was quietly hopeful of help, for before dark a circling plane had sighted the DC-3, whipped back to Vero Beach, ten miles away, for help. Captain O'Brien was still flying the plane through that morning's murderous thunderstorm...