Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year the colony has felt the pinch of sea blockade, but not until the British under Lieut. General Alan Gordon Cun ningham had mopped up most of Ethiopia last May was the wall around French So maliland complete. Then, after Vichy began to play hard at collaboration, the British and Free French sent an ultimatum to Governor Pierre Nouailhetas at Djibouti: surrender or starve. When the Governor refused to surrender, the British clamped down. By land British troops ringed the colony; at sea patrol boats of the Royal Navy stopped food ships, often in sight of pierhead watchers at Djibouti...
Said Editor John Rutherford Gordon of the Sunday Express: "What is the matter? Lack of planes? Lack of tanks? Lack of rifles? Lack of men? Probably we do lack all these things but it seems to me we lack something much more important. That is the offensive attitude of mind...
...Salle Street office building, in several other spectacular deals. Last week's was tops to date; Rubloff calls it "Chicago's biggest real-estate deal in three decades." Tall and trim, Rubloff lives in the fashionable Lake Shore Drive Hotel, spends weekends raising flowers and Gordon setters on a 314-acre Wisconsin estate which he bought two years ago for $300,000. On the estate are 40 acres of woods which Rubloff calls "the national park...
...University, the American Red Cross later agreed to join the venture and to pay for its operating expenses, while the medical staff of the Harvard Unit were to assume responsibility for its scientific direction. The entire organization was, and is now, under the single direction of Dr. John E. Gordon, of the Harvard Medical School...
Marshal Field, backer of the New York tabloid PM, put up the money. The Center's board of directors includes two social psychologists, Princeton's Professor Hadley Cantril and Harvard's Professor Gordon W. Allport, and University of Denver's Chancellor Caleb F. Gates Jr., onetime star Princeton tackle and track man. For active operators the academicians will lean on two experienced pollsters, British-born Harry H. Field (no kin to Marshall Field), who worked six years for George Gallup and organized the British Institute of Public Opinion, and F. Douglas Williams, who worked for Elmo...