Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus last week, in a voice at wide variance from many others in the church, spoke the tall, affable Rev. Daniel A. McGregor of the Episcopal Church's National Council, addressing New York Episcopal clergymen...
...testimonial dinner was tendered to Robert S. Kieve '43, former president of the Crimson Network, by members of the organization and their guests in an in-town restaurant last night. Daniel A. Shepard '43, now president of the station, paid tribute to Kieve's work in building up the system, as the ex-prexy sat munching his third plateful of smorgasbord, surrounded by friends, former enemies, and several "Swing-out" 'Cliffettes...
...Gloucester block" ("God rest his iron soul"), is a Reservist whom the Navy has told to "fish a little longer." Obeying the order with a true seaman's pleasure ("his mighty nose snuffed up the spray's champagne"), he takes the "sweet sailer and . . . good earner" Daniel Webster out to the Grand Banks with a weather eye peeled for wartime trouble. Aboard are two new men, Danes by their claim-Conrad and Holger...
Bannon becomes suspicious of a Danish square-rigger, Den Magre Kvind. His suspicions mount when the Daniel finds, in an open boat, three slaughtered Danes whom Holger mourns too loudly and whom Conrad deduces, from their pallor and their oily hands, to be U-boat engineers executed for a breach of discipline. The square-rigger has been shelled into half-ruin and her Captain Skalder, whose curses fall "like bars of iron" through his great red block of beard, says he is bound for Halifax with a cargo of rum. But Bannon notices that the shell wounds were made with...
Admiral Darlan confirmed the hunch that U.S. Admiral William Daniel Leahy had a good deal to do with the African campaign. As long as a year ago, said Darlan, he and Admiral Leahy-then Ambassador to Vichy, now President Roosevelt's personal Chief of Staff-discussed U.S. intervention in Europe and its effect on the French. Admiral Darlan said that if the U.S. had then had 500,000 equipped troops available in Europe, "we could have acted differently...