Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be in charge of Military Science 3 and 4, was a letterman at Norwich University, graduating in 1916, serving in the Third Division Field Artillery overseas where he was promoted form lieutenant to captain. He holds the Distinguished Service Cross. Before coming to Harvard he was stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas...
...formally proposed and seconded for the vice-presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention in 1924. Elliott White Springs' father was Col. Leroy Springs who, upon his death three years ago, left his son control of seven of South Carolina's biggest and best textile mills at Fort Mill, Lancaster and Chester. But Elliott White Springs' public remembered him not as an able mill-owning son of an able mill-owning father but as a Wartime flyer and writer...
...three months in Liberty and later became a best-selling book. War Birds was supposedly the diary of an unknown U. S. aviator, but few literary wiseacres believed that Mr. Springs did nothing more than edit the manuscript. Mr. Springs has a private airport on his estate at Fort Mill, plays a crack game of tennis, lists on his letterhead some 25 goods & services-including cotton sheets, airplane transportation, short stories-which he will supply...
...relief rolls for failing to solicit votes for Candidate Roche. Senator Costigan denounced the Johnsonite Denver Post for its "nauseating campaign of unwarranted invective and deception." But Colorado Democrats gave Governor Johnson a 7-to-6 majority over the first female aspirant for his office. Nate C. Warren of Fort Collins was the Republican chosen to oppose...
Predecessor. When Mr. Morgenthau sits at his desk, he can raise his eyes to the right and look up into the florid features of Salmon P. Chase. He may take some com fort from doing so, for he and Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury have much in common. Chase, too, was not a financier by training. His chief interest in life was abolition and he had the difficult job of financing the war to end slavery. The Dictionary of American Biography says of Mr. Chase...