Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James A. Gregg of Winthrop House and Fort Knox, Kentucky: Gleo Club, Freshman Football...
During the ten years of peace, Beck has bent every effort to gain popularity for himself and his unions. During World War II the teamsters' treasury was tapped to buy football uniforms for the 146th Field Artillery at Fort Lewis. Teamsters recorded the farewell messages of 60,000 soldiers who passed through the Seattle Port of Embarkation and sent the records to their families. Dave Beck ran the state of Washington's third war bond drive and exceeded the quota by $30 million...
...Words a Day. Eisenhower wrote Crusade in Europe after four years of prodding from friends in & out of the Army. Once he decided to do it, he made a quick, sharp campaign of it. On Feb. 7 of this year, in his quarters at Fort Myer, Va., he started to dictate at a clip of 5,000 words a day, pacing steadily as he talked. After his shorthand expert had left for the day, he corrected the first draft, began to add to it in longhand, and soon found himself working on until 3 a.m. By March 24-46 days...
Four years of service led him fur and wide, first with a V-5 outfit, where he played a season of football with the Bernic Bierman-coached Iowa Seahawks. Later on he was transferred to Pearl Harbor where he was co-coach of the Fort Island team there until his discharge in the fall of 1945, at which time he made a boe-line back to Michigan where he took on the dual jobs of assistant line coach and Varsity wrestling coach...
Basic training, O.C.S., Fort Gelvore, all denoted portions of McCabe's military life. In July, 1944, he was shipped to the ETO where he worked on the Red Ball Express and in an engineering combat battalion with the Ninth Army. V-E day found him on the west bank of the Elbe...