Word: divisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the moment he rode into Little Rock and joined the boys, Harry Truman was at his handshaking, backslapping best. If there was anything he liked as much as winning elections and playing poker, this was it-the annual reunion of the 35th Division and its famous offspring, Captain Harry...
Before he was inducted at Fort Riley, Kans., in 1942, Delbert Eugene Hill was a professional entertainer in the U.S., billed as "America's Only Lady Magician." The Army put him in Special Services Division, shipped him off to England to amuse the Air Force. He did so well...
"In the division KS of so-called People's Police, we see the resurrection of the Gestapo of unsavory remembrance. They operate with the same methods ... It will not be necessary to give details . . . Were the ballots for the election of the Volkskongress not made exactly according to the...
To fill Clement's post, Pennsy directors picked another oldster, hulking (6 ft. 6 in.) Executive Vice President Walter S. Franklin, himself at the voluntary retirement age of 65 (mandatory retirement age: 70). Franklin had started on a freight platform in Philadelphia in 1906, worked steadily up through the...
Next Monday, still another "drafted" professor will leave Harvard to do a job for the government overseas. He is Lincoin Gordon '33, professor of Government and Administration at the Business School. Gordon, who has spent almost two years working out details of ERP, will fly to Paris to begin a...