Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Eichelberger. The Emperor invited him to lunch-a rare courtesy. Prince Takamatsu, the Emperor's brother, came to tea with the general and his wife Emma (who through the war, and after, got a letter a day from her husband until she joined him in Yokohama). The governor of Tokyo and the governor of Yokohama got into a squabble over which would commission a sculptor to do a "kind bust" of the general-to supplant a stern-faced "mean bust" made of him when he first arrived in Japan...
Since Hiroshima, the U.S.'s fear for the safety of the Panama Canal has trebled and quadrupled. At the order of Congress, the Canal Zone's governor has prepared a six-volume report on how to protect the vital Atlantic-Pacific short cut from atomic bombs. Army Secretary Kenneth Royall, on the hunt for alternate canal routes, last winter flew all over the country between Colombia and the Tehuantepec Isthmus in Mexico...
...Philadelphia-style show. At the opening, the band of the Governor General's Foot Guards played God Save the King and O Canada, packed up and was heard no more. Mackenzie King intoned the Lord's Prayer, stood for a 40-second ovation, then got down to business. There were no parading delegates, no partisan banners...
...Island. Next morning examiners handed out booklets describing "Fantasy Island," a nonexistent spot 400 miles north of Australia, inhabited jointly by British and Dutch. Each candidate had to face examiners and fellow candidates and answer how he would react to hypothetical administrative problems. No. 17's problem, as governor of Fantasy Island: Jewish D.P.s were being ostracized by their neighbors on the island; should he allow them to set up an all-Jewish community in an area already occupied by Italians? Nervously, No. 17 argued yes. The group voted him down ("It would lead to bloodshed"), but examiners gave...
...Ruin. In socialite Newport, scholars are having another go at the mystery of the Old Stone Mill. Led by Archeologist William S. Godfrey, the diggers will try to determine whether it is a Viking church tower or only the ruins of a windmill built by Governor Benedict Arnold (great-grandfather of Traitor Arnold) of the Rhode Island colony. Down-to-earth archeologists side with James Fenimore Cooper who (in The Red Rover) called it a windmill. The romantic school inclines to Longfellow, whose The Skeleton in Armor refers to the "lofty tower" built by a far-flung Norseman...