Word: easley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...EASLEY...
Killed in Action. Brigadier General Claudius M. Easley, 53, crackshot, Texas-born assistant commander of the 96th Infantry Division; by a Jap machine-gunner; on Okinawa. Four weeks earlier, he had bagged a Jap with one shot from a borrowed G.I.'s rifle...
Tall, gaunt Mrs. Hughes Easley, wife of a disabled electrical worker in St. Louis and the mother of eight, was elected "Mrs. Unemployed American Mother." Her family food allowance: $58.85 a month. Rent allowance: $10. Mrs. Roosevelt was invited to sit next Mrs. Easley at a reliefer's dinner. The menu: 2 oz. beef stew, % carrot, 1 onion, % potato, % slice of bread, 1 pat of oleomargarine, 1 canned prune. Mrs. Roosevelt agreed that the dinner was not quite enough...
...authorized the President to spend it within eight months. On that basis, WPA will receive almost if not quite as much as it did last year. The report added that Colonel F. C. Harrington, WPA Administrator, was making efforts to improve the agency. Mrs. Easley and Mrs. Greenberg didn't know about the race tracks and ski jumps. All they knew was that there was not quite enough oleomargarine, not quite enough sardines...