Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They became Squadron 71 in Britain's air force. Colonel Sweeny, who had fought in practically every war of the last four decades, though he sometimes could not remember on which side, was their honorary commander. Active command finally fell to 22-year-old Chesley Gordon Peterson, who was born in Salmon City on Idaho's wild "River of No Return." Later two other Eagle Squadrons of U.S. volunteers were formed: the 121st, the 133rd...
This catastrophe cuts the other way, too, for it can strengthen American morale. Blind self-assurance has suffered a moral blow; the era of short-sighted faith is gone. Joe Gordon caught off second is as unlikely as Douglas MacArthur caught off Australia. Bill Dickey's throwing into center field is as impossible as a Flying Fortress missing its mark. Those things just don't happen. But Gordon was tagged out, and Dickey did make a bad toss. If that doesn't jolt our complacency, nothing will...
...under his mother's bed. They locked up Stokley Delmar Hart, president of the Brotherhood of Liberty for the Black People of America. They arrested F. H. Hammurabi Robb, director of the World Wide Friends of Africa. And they pinched Mme. Mittie Maud Lena Gordon, president general of the Peace Movement of Ethiopia...
Worst news was that business was terrific, would soon be super-terrific. A.T.A's. figure-minded, mustachioed General Manager Charles Gordon clambered on to the speaker's platform in the ornate Red Lacquer Room, bluntly told fidgety delegates what to expect: 20 billion passengers a year by October, 22 billion by December - a 30% increase over 1941's 17 billion. And after the Baruch rubber conservation scheme hit the headlines, Gordon upped his estimate to 24½ billion...
Professor Hagan from the University of Illinois is to take over some of the instruction previously carried by Assistant Professor Merle Fainsod and Dr. Lincoln Gordon, both of whom are now in Washington. Professor Hagan, who has been teaching the courses on govern- ment regulation of industry at the Illinois for the last six years, will collaboration with Professor William Y. Elliott in Government 29a, which will deal primarily with war-time controls of economic life, and will have charge of Government 29b, dealing with government regulation in time of peace. He will also tutor a number of students...