Word: harlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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INDIANA: Harlan C. Meal, 17, of Waldron; Waldron High School...
WISCONSIN: Harlan P. Hanson, 17, of Madison; West High School, Madison; Arthur W. Hornig, 18, of Milwaukee; Milwaukee Country Day School...
Best bet in the Republican Senate race is another big man, cold, close-mouthed Harlan J. Bushfield, 59, present Governor, who stands a craggy 6 ft. 2, weighs 195. Though mum about foreign affairs for the last year, Bushfield dislikes Willkie liberalism, in 1940 aspired to run for Vice President behind Ohio's Robert A. Taft. Dictator of the machine he built, Bushfield's main distinction is a record for economy in tax reductions. He might have had a clear field but for the determined person of his Secretary of State, Olive A. Ringsrud...
...story of police corruption that smeared the blue uniform of "New York's finest" was unreeled last week by Special Prosecutor John Harlan Amen (rhymes with layman). His charge: Brooklyn gamblers annually forked out $1,000,000 to cops who winked at their $100,000,000 bookmaking business. His proof: 1,500 feet of film recording payoffs; evidence, collected by a squad of special sleuths, that Brooklyn cops bought, with their boodle, outboard motorboats, small cruisers, summer homes, automobiles, $1,000 fur coats for their wives, real estate. Named by Amen grand juries were 49 cops...
...Army and Navy made paragons of a soldier and a sailor. Soldier Earl L. Short (see cut) was chosen from 7,000 others as the "Perfect Selectee" at Virginia's Fort Belvoir; Sailor Henry Harlan Blake (see cut, p. 41) was pronounced "Typical" by the Pacific Fleet. Soldier Short is 23, stands 6 ft. i in., weighs 185 lb.; Sailor Blake is 24, stands 5 ft. 11 in., weighs about 180 lb. Short is from Georgia, Blake from West Virginia. Neither is married. Short is taller and heavier than the average draftee (who is 5 ft. 8 in., weighs...