Word: gowen
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...Fetched. In Boise, Idaho, Corporal Frank Goral won Gowen Field's weekly long-distance call privilege, stepped to the phone, called his mother-in-law in Connecticut...
James Stewart, Hollywood star with the Army Air Forces, was promoted to a captaincy at Idaho's Gowen Field...
Mess Matters. At Camp Adair, Ore., Major Hosiah J. Osborn, assistant commandant of the 9th Service Command School for Bakers & Cooks, came out against K.P. duty as punishment, branded it injurious to the dignity of the kitchen. At Gowen Field, Idaho, the bugler, woolgathering, pursed his lips at 11 p.m. for taps, blew the wrong call, sent some 5,000 men scrambling for the mess hall...
Eighteen years, three months and seven days before Pearl Harbor, Japan experienced an earthquake and fires that took 90-odd thousand lives and left disease smoldering in their wake. Some $11,000,000 in cash and many a shipload of relief materials from a sympathetic U.S., commented Herbert H. Gowen in his An Outline History of Japan, "are things no Japanese is ever likely to forget." Japan did not forget. Said a War Department communiqué last week...
...Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, rode triumphantly up Main Street. Joseph Beddal was killed during the strike of 1902 trying to smuggle arms to strikebreakers besieged in the Reading station. In Muff Lawler's saloon on Coal Street, a young detective named McParlan, hired by President Gowen of the Reading, joined the Molly McGuires, later gave testimony that sent ten Mollies to their death. When Gowen committed suicide 13 years later, Shenandoah miners said it was remorse...