Word: havener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your uncritical quoting of his story that the Navy asked for his resignation because he wanted to preach the gospel implies that all of the chaplains who haven't been asked to resign from the Navy either do not care to preach the gospel or have submitted to Navy censorship...
Trumpeted Maryland's Millard Tydings: "Continuing the spending of money we haven't got is sheer demagoguery...
From Voltaire to Lenin, Europe's political exiles have found a haven in Switzerland. Recent notable refugees: Novelist Thomas Mann, running away from the Nazis in 1933; Countess Galeazzo (Edda Mussolini) Ciano, running away from the Allies and Nazis this year...
Died. John Archer Gee, 50, vast and vigorous Yale professor of English com position; after long illness; in New Haven. A masterful lecturer on the comma (or any other article of punctuation), an in trepid Maine Coast power boatman, he was perhaps the greatest tennis player of his weight (well beyond 200 lbs.) in the U.S. He observed: "I have to hit them hard. If they come back, I can't get to them." His advice to the young: "Not many of us can be Davy Crocketts, but some, perchance, may hope to fill the niche of Millard Fillmore...
...train clacked on slowly, through the desert and up the mountains. As the coffee cups rattled in the dining cars the little marine said: "I haven't shaken so much since the night we went around Cape Hatteras, leaving the States." At Tucumcari, there was time for a beer at the station hotel: on the first round it cost a quarter; by the second the price shot to 40?. Said the red-haired sergeant from Rochester, not complaining, but just noticing: "Somebody's making money...