Word: dempseys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to the Mission's letterheads (though not in fact), the Mission had a staff of doctors and nurses, listed an honorary committee which included (without their knowledge or consent) Jack Dempsey, Mrs. Oliver Harriman, Ralph W. Budd and other big names. Sometimes, in lighter vein, the missioners got money for their charities by selling punchboards -all of them well rigged against the player...
...north last week General Sir Miles C. Dempsey's British Second Army launched an attack on the German salient between Roermond and Geilenkirchen. This appeared to be no more than a line-straightening operation, to bring the British up to the Roer, in line with the U.S. Ninth and First Army positions. Yet Dempsey's white-painted tanks and white-clad infantry advanced seven miles in three days, swept up a dozen villages, beat down with flamethrowers a counterattack by Nazi paratroops...
...north other cracks appeared. "Texas Bill" Simpson's Ninth, wed in battle to units of Lieut. General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey's British Second Army, slugged into heavily fortified Geilenkirchen, cut through the first deep defenses of the Siegfried Line. Geilenkirchen was a classic of teamwork; Germans were trapped between U.S. and British units. Within a few hours American G.I.s riding British tanks had pushed on into the Würm valley for three miles. The crust had softened. There were signs of limited German withdrawals...
...Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, required four months to reduce the fortress of 's Hertogenbosch. Last week Lieut. General Sir Miles C. Dempsey's Second British Army did it in three days...
Millions of Americans, who had almost forgotten Al Smith the politician, remembered him as a symbol of a wonderful era-the years of the never-ending bull market, of the hip flask, of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Dempsey fights. Al Smith's hoarse and genial East Side voice, his chewed cigar, his violent pajamas and his rasping expletive, "Baloney!" belonged to the fabulous '20s as much as It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'. He was against the Volstead Act; and in the '20s the U.S. almost elected him its President...