Word: ghq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Activity at GHQ. There was no sign from Tokyo this week that he intended to return to the U.S. soon to go into active campaigning. But there was no doubt that 68-year-old Douglas MacArthur wanted to crown his career with the U.S. presidency. His headquarters buzzed with a new activity. Cables of congratulations, support and advice began to pile up on his desk. As he always had in his military campaigns, the general was gathering intelligence reports. As he had in his war moves, MacArthur would reveal his political decision in his own good time...
...Armed Forces radio was told by headquarters that such information as the formation of "Veterans Against MacArthur" clubs was "controversial" and should not be broadcast. The same order went to the Army's Stars & Stripes. When the censorship was reported back to the U.S., the ban was lifted. GHQ explained that the general had not known about it, that he had given orders that the Japanese and the Army's press and radio wires be permitted to report any U.S. political attacks...
Soon, "with the help of large-hearted students," Yogananda built his first U.S. GHQ: the Self-Realization Fellowship, near Los Angeles. Favored disciples-such as his barefooted, youthful American secretary, Mr. Wright; and Miss Ettie Bletch, "an elderly lady from Cincinnati" -accompanied the master on triumphal speaking tours. Another group of disciples, U.S. businessmen, built their Guru a splendid hermitage near San Diego ("jutting out [into the Pacific] like a great white ocean liner"). The hermitage was soon followed by two Self-Realization Churches of All Religions, one in Washington, D. C., one in Hollywood ("finished in blue, white...
...tough as Al's mob. Its leaders were hard and ambitious-George ("Bugs") Moran, Vincent ("The Schemer") Drucci and Earl (Hymie) Weiss, the rosary-fingering inventor of the one-way ride. One day seven automobile loads of O'Banion men parked in front of Al's GHQ in Cicero and riddled it with Tommy guns. Al escaped. The O'Banions were not really broken until 1929. That was the year that five Capone gunmen, three dressed like harmless policemen, carried out the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, leaving seven men dead in a North Side...
Professor Saichi Sato, who wrote one, was a GHQ interpreter in the occupation's early days, and briefly published a Japanese imitation of TIME. Some definitions in Sato's go-page, pocket-size Dictionary of Current Americanism, New Words...