Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tenth Army swarming ashore. Marines and soldiers fought side by side in this army, as they had in World War I's famed 2nd Division. Comprising the army were Major General John R. Hodge's XXIV Army Corps and Major General Roy S. Geiger's III Marine Amphibious Corps...
Behind almost every major U.S. newspaper sale in the past ten years has been a hustling, cocksure trader whose name rarely appears in print. The men he represented got the headlines: Marshall Field III, or Akron's Jack Knight, the nation's fastest rising newspaper owner. The man-behind-the-deal got the Miami Herald for Knight, then sold him the Detroit Free Press, lock, stock and Edgar A. Guest. Five months ago, he helped Knight buy the Chicago Daily News, fourth largest afternoon paper in the U.S. His chores for Marshall Field include winning over Milton (Terry...
...conviction that dismemberment of our continent or its partition into spheres of influence would inevitably lead, in a near future, to World War III...
Married. Emily ("Paddy") Vanderbilt, 19, handsome descendant of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt (founder of the New York Central Railroad), daughter of Captain William H. Vanderbilt, U.S.N.R. (ex-Governor of Rhode Island); and Jeptha Homer Wade III, 20, fellow senior at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, descendant and namesake of a founder of Western Union; in Portsmouth...
President Roosevelt, it appeared, started a trend when in 1941 he arranged a West Point appointment for Colin Kelly III, now 4, son of World War II's first U.S. air hero. Following along with many another school and college, New York University last week awarded its 17th Gold Star Scholarship to the child of an alumnus dead in war. The recipient: eleven-month-old Philip H. Davis Jr. of Chattanooga, whose father was killed while piloting a Liberator over Europe...