Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Navy. Frank Knox made a speech in Manhattan, inspected a testing basin at Carderock, Md., visited Rhode Island's Camp Endicott...
...world, Tojo was signaling the fact that island Japan had become a continental power. The Japanese had begun to withdraw some of their own troops from China, replace them with thousands of Chinese, sometimes under Japanese officers, often under Chinese officers from Manchukuo. The Nanking government is now allowed to handle economic exploitation of Occupied China and the squeeze is as merciless as when it was applied by Japan. Nanking, pleased, declared war on Britain and the U.S. (TIME, Jan. 18). Last week Tokyo relinquished some of its extraterritorial concessions, nominally placed them in Chinese hands...
Other '45 men elected to the Committee in order of their total number of votes were Richard W. Mechem of Washington, Peter Garland of Buzzards Bay, James E. McNulty, Jr. of Oak "Park, Illinois, Donald W. Richards of Providence, Rhode Island, John W. Fisher of Weston, Frank D. Bixler of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Robert T. P. Storer, Jr. of Cambridge...
Frenchmen in sweltering, graft-ridden French Guiana (home of Devil's Island) believed what they heard: General Charles de Gaulle of the Fighting French and General Henri Giraud in North Africa were uniting in the cause of French liberation. That was enough...
...Rhode Island State makes an unpected appearance at the Stadium this Saturday afternoon, in an informal track meet. This sudden schedule change puts back the University Handicap meet one week, to April...