Word: generale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coming of the King." The general store-a narrow, yellowing building which had been the railroad station in the days when trains still stopped at America-was in the center of America's Christmas rush. In a financial sense, it wasn't much of a store-its owner, Walter Schnaare, had long since given up trying to make a living out of it and had gotten a job upriver at Cairo (rhymes with faro). But it was, nevertheless, a great institution in America-a club and forum, and a source for almost anything America's housewives...
...paper's legal advisers prepared a brief after ominous silence from the Justice Department left the issue unclear. CRIMSON Editors had wired Attorney General J. Howard McGrath on the legality of the anti-drought program, and still had no reply by press-time...
Meanwhile, the CRIMSON acted to check its legal grounds when it appeared that the migration from New York might be considered a violation of the Mann Act. The Editors wired Attorney General J. Howard McGrath...
...World War II memoirs. Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery went on with his battle report in El Alamein to the River Sangro, but its army-manual style limited its appeal chiefly to professional soldiers. A more dramatic soldier's story, important and unfortunately neglected, was Polish Lieut. General Anders' account of his army's sacrifices and betrayals, An Army in Exile. U.S. big brass, hounded by publishers and eager ghostwriters, combed memories, diaries and official records to get their stories on the record. Hard-boiled Major General Claire Chennault had a field day with U.S. blundering...
Members of the Liberal Union, the American Veterans' Committee, the Teachers' Union, the Young Progressives, and the National Lawyers' Guild had agreed Saturday to ask their groups to oppose in two general ways the application of the loyalty oath to College students...