Word: holders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md., they X-rayed Franklin Roosevelt's chest. It was a mild case of bronchitis, going into its third week. To reporters, the President pooh-poohed his illness, continued to smoke from his long cigaret holder, continued to cough softly but persistently. Last week...
...feature appearing several months ago in the Harvard Scuttlebutt, Captain Barker was described as, "a Navy man's Navy man." His modest and direct manner would hardly indicate that he is the holder of the Navy Cross, which he earned when in the position of Executive and Navigation officer of the destroyer "Nicholson," the first destroyer to be sent by the United States to the Allied Naval forces...
Boisterous, boyish (25) Bud Mahurin was a mediocre student at Fort Wayne (Ind.) High School because he spent too much time tinkering with motors. He learned to fly during two years of engineering study at Purdue. Holder of the D.S.C. and D.F.C., Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, he did not achieve top-scoring distinction easily. He flew his Republic Thunderbolt on 28 missions over Nazi territory before making his first kill...
...accord's importance lay in its implication: Britain admitted the right of the De Gaulle regime to act with authority not only for the French Empire but for the homeland. Military necessity made the admission inevitable. As leader of the second-greatest colonial empire, holder of vital bases, wielder of an army of 400,000 and link to Europe's biggest resistance group, the Algiers government had to play a key part in the coming Allied invasion. Plans were well advanced. The Committee would send an army into France, pay for relief supplies, devise a currency, probably administer...
...present moment, he added, "It is not the Government's intention to drop bombs on the precincts of Vatican City, nor, if it can be avoided, on the city of Rome." Then a Roman Catholic peer, Viscount FitzAlan, added: "I have the greatest possible affection for the present holder of the high office of Pope and I should deprecate strongly any thing that might put him to any personal inconvenience. At the same time we can not be blind to the fact that whatever may happen to the existing holder of the Holy See we always get another...