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Back from the Mediterranean Theater, where he has been flying and fighting with the 99th, Captain Lemuel R. Curtis, a Howard graduate, declared: "Negroes in far-flung corners of the earth are getting a new slant on things. When they come home they expect to get some of the things they've been hearing about and fighting for. I believe they will be both aggressive and progressive about...
Admirals Harold Stark and Alan Kirk, Generals Carl Spaatz and James Doolittle were busy making history on the morning of June 6. While their planes bombed German communications and their ships took U.S. soldiers to Normandy, their wives saw service (see cut) on radio's far-flung Invasion Day front...
...forget that there was another occasion when a Roman Government official washed his hands of a dark and dirty business. . . . We have spent more time calling attention to the plight of 600 Methodist conscientious objectors than we have to twice that many crosses over dead Methodist boys in the far-flung corners of this earth...
Shore-based personnel in the U.S. and in scores of far-flung bases accounts for another big chunk of Navy strength, the Marines total over 400,000 and the number of men actually afloat in warcraft is more than...
Founded in 1694 in the reign of King William of Orange, expressly to make credit available to that hard-pressed monarch in his wars with the French, the Bank of England is the heart and center of Britain's far-flung financial system. Under its leadership the pound sterling became, in the 19th Century, a universal currency...