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...before the French artillery-ponderous 155-mm. howitzers lobbing shells from far behind; flat-shooting 755 moving up into the cleared area-have pounded at the Wall forts for many days. The concrete fortresses of the Maginot Line are 150 ft. deep in some places and hard as flint. French hope was that the Westwall concrete, poured more hastily, can be pulverized by France's really heavy artillery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN FRONT: Soar Push | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...Chicago, Dr. West caustically suggested that N. M. A. put their own house in order before criticizing the A. M. A. Flashing a sheaf of documents, he informed an astonished N. M. A. delegation that the president-elect of the Negro National Medical Association, Dr. Jesse Leonidas Leach of Flint, Mich., had been fined by a Michigan Federal district court in 1928 'for selling twelve quarts of bootleg "Sandy MacDonald" Scotch to disguised Federal agents. Furious, N. M. A. leaders spread the news to all 2,000 N. M. A. members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Leach's MacDonald | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...Martin had some luck at one of the subsidiary Fisher Body Corp.'s two plants in strike-worn Flint, Mich., little luck elsewhere. "A complete failure," chortled C. I. O.'s Auto-President Roland Jay Thomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Muscle | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...John W. Flint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 191 Letter Winners on Spring Minor Sports Teams Are Announced | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...Andover the Yardlings proved no match for the Royal Blue, who marched away with the honors 10 to 3. Those of Coach Johnnie Witherspoon's men who saw action were Fenn, Staber, Simmons, Murphy, Turner, Rogers, Alexis, Power, Heiden, Conlin, Wilson, Flint, Rothschild, Marshall, and Sachs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LACROSSE TEAM BEATS BOSTON CLUB TEN 10-2 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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