Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, officers in "PT corner" of the Bureau of Ships glowed over this latest exploit of "the expendables." They were unable to give the hero's name officially. Unofficially they had reason to believe he was Lieut. Commander Robert Kelly, one of the original members of Lieut. Commander John Duncan Bulkeley's squadron in the Philippines campaign...
...global government could scarcely begin to solve the big problems that lead to war-to tackle the clash of national interests concerned with the wealth of the earth, and the efforts men make to own or use or exploit or develop that wealth-with less powers in itself than are listed in these few extracts from the U.S. Constitution. A global government could not make effective such laws as it might pass, with fewer restrictions on the now sovereign nations...
...Kelly, was badly crippled. In May 1941 he took her into the hell of Crete. That time the Kelly was finished off and the King's handsome second cousin was lucky to escape on a life raft. Noel Coward made a movie based on the Kelly's exploit: In Which We Serve...
...fierce fighting over the Southwest Pacific came a new legend for the children of airmen. Last week in New Guinea pilots were still talking about the final exploit of Major Ralph Cheli-("pronounced Kelly," said a friend of his, "as in Colin Kelly...
...Negro press does indeed exploit sensational race stories but these strictures merely made a bad situation worse. Editorialized the Detroit Free Press: "Wholly inadequate. . . . Every race and every minority group has its false leaders. This merely shakes the tree instead of getting at the roots." Said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "The country has been informed of certain factors that Governor Kelly's committee hasn't deigned to mention: that the old, discredited Ku Klux Klan is operating in Detroit; that wartime industry has brought to the city numerous white workers from the South who have deep racial...