Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Realistic appraisers of human affairs, the bishops were not too sanguine. They could foresee a possible World War III, but hoped that it would be only a "war of punishment for outlaw nations...
Major Horace Elgin Dodge Jr., 44, thrice-married motorcar heir, was busy last week with a full program of marital madcapping. After days of long-distance objections (Stamford, Conn, to Denver) to the proposed marriage of his son, Corporal H. E. Dodge III to Margery Gehman, redheaded daughter of a University of Buffalo professor, he announced that he would attend as best man, arrived in Denver 48 hours late, having missed plane connections. Sitting on her lap, he gave his blessing to his new daughter-in-law, told reporters he was in love with 2nd Lieut. Cara Tinsley, an Army...
Franklin Roosevelt donned his blue-black Navy cape and his famed campaign hat-the gear in which he campaigned successfully into Terms I, II & III. Out of the White House garage came the huge black Packard touring car with the bulletproof windows. To the Secret Service went the order to mobilize all resources. Franklin Roosevelt had decided to campaign in the usual partisan sense...
...Ball was lukewarm. The St. Paul Pioneer Press asked him pointblank. Replied Joe Ball on Sept. 29: "Governor Dewey . . . has not yet convinced me that his own convictions . . . are so strong that he would fight vigorously for a foreign policy which will offer real hope of preventing World War III...
...town was a welter of muddy rubble, pervaded by the stench of dead animals and burst sewer and gas mains. Despite all efforts of Allied airmen to spare the cathedral, one bomb had pierced the roof of the Gothic choir and smashed the empty tomb of Emperor Otto III (11th Century). The U.S. troops who fought toward the air-raid shelter had been trained in the streets of a bomb-riddled town in England...