Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pearl Harbor occurred before Cabot could put his ideas into operation. His reputation as a trouble shooter prompted the War Department to ask for his services, and Cabot went to work as a civilian advisor to the Quartermaster Corps. His first big assignment was to straighten out a personnel problem at the Tank Automotive Center in Detroit. Discord among the four thousand men had been slowing up the plant's production. When Cabot got through, the plant ran smoothly again and everyone was content. He left the War Department in 1945, after successfully completing his government duties...
Weyman's real name:Stephen Weinberg. His lifetime profession: impostor. Brooklyn-born Weinberg started his career in 1910 by posing as a naval attaché in the Serbian embassy in Washington. As a U.S. consul in Morocco, he was received in New York harbor by U.S. fleet units. Once his Brooklyn accent betrayed him at a banquet at the Hotel Astor, where he was posing as the U.S. consul general from Rumania. He was exposed, but managed to stay out of jail. In 1921, he got into the White House by posing as a "U.S. protocol representative," introduced Afghanistan...
Seniors will party on the waters of Boston Harbor this June, Robert P. Hyde '51, chairman of the 1951 Class Day Committee, revealed last night. Scheduled for June 19, the party will take seniors and their dates, families, and friends on a three hour moonlight sail through the harbor...
Dean Hess, a studious lad from Marietta, Ohio, decided that he would rather fight than preach. He was a 23-year-old ordained minister in the Church of the Disciples of Christ when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor; the next day, Hess enlisted as an air cadet. After winning his wings, he taught flying for two years, then went off to the ETO as a fighter pilot, piled up 62 missions and won the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross...
...honor guard of Belgian troops smartly presented arms on the dock one day last week as the Canadian freighter Beaver-brae nosed into Antwerp's harbor. In the ship were the last of 170 artillery pieces, 23,000 machine guns and rifles, and 2,500 tons of ammunition shipped from Montreal to equip a Belgian infantry division...