Word: en
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ethics. A hobo cannot be a tramp or a bum. He must not beg or steal or ignore soap & water. Now & then he must work a while. His peers elected Bo Sigurd ("Skeets") Simmons, 56, of Detroit, who hitchhiked from New York in seven days, spent $10 for food en route. Ben ("The Coast Kid") Benson, twotime king of the jungles, ran a poor fifth. There were strong hints that Ben was a "greaseball" and never took a bath. Said one hobo: "He's just...
...Lisan had lost face. His young rivals for party leadership, Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai (until then an executioner for the Communist Party in Shanghai), insisted that the Communists in China should henceforth base their shattered movement on the dissatisfied peasants. Li insisted that it must be based on the factory workers. In a fierce, undercover, dialectic struggle, Li Lisan was forced out of the leadership. He went to Russia, where friends got him a job in Moscow's famed Far Eastern University, training ground for Russia's Asiatic agents. He married a Russian wife. Meanwhile...
...Arrived, in London: Admiral Marc Andrew Mitscher, commander of the U.S. Eighth (Atlantic) Fleet and Vice Admiral Forrest Percival Sherman, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, en route to the Mediterranean for a "normal [and timely] inspection of naval forces in Europe...
...Harrison ("Best-Dressed") Williams was back in Capri after long exile in Manhattan and Palm Beach. The tireless, chin-up hostess and amateur flower gardener flew across, picked up her old chauffeur in Paris en route. Soon word came back to the New York World-Telegram's society editor that "Mona" was "seen daily being driven through the streets of Capri in first one, then another of her long, sleek and luxurious limousines...
Edmund W. Pugh, Jr. was named Assistant Dean of the Business School, James R. Tightower, instructor in Chinese, William Hung visiting lecturer on Far Eastern Languages, and Kenneth Kuan-Sheng Ch'en research fellow in Far Eastern languages...