Word: kents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prevention of future wars through guarantees of international press freedom, a proposal which had been seconded by A.P. General Manager Kent Cooper (TIME, Nov. 22), was again urged: by former Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles...
...mayor of Kent, Wash., truck-gardening town near Seattle, which had some 1,600 Japs before the war, had signs printed up: "We Don't Want the Japs Back Here Ever." The mother lodge (15,000 members) of the Fraternal Order of Eagles voted unanimously in Seattle to deport all U.S. Japanese after the war. So did the Portland Progressive Business Men's Club, and the Oregon State Legion. Hardly anyone ever bothered to distinguish between the alien Japanese, who are deportable, and U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry. A battalion of U.S.-born Japs is fighting well...
Noel Coward, visiting Manhattan on his way to entertain South African military hospitals, was asked about a rumor of his engagement to Marina, Britain's beauteous, widowed Duchess of Kent (who was down with flu last week, like many of her countrymen-see p. 44). In clipped syllables he clipped the rumor: "Utterly idiotic...
Killed on Duty. Pamela Barton, 26, British Women's Auxiliary Air Force flight officer, onetime U.S. Women's National Amateur golf champion (1936), British Open champion (1936, 1939); in the crash of a Royal Air Force plane; in Kent, England...
Died. Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovitch Romanoff, 66, the late Grand Duke Cyril Romanoff's younger brother; in Paris. He was a grandson of Alexander III, next-to-last Czar, and uncle of Britain's beauteous Duchess of Kent. In 1902, gay Duke Boris amused the U.S. public by drinking champagne out of a Chicago chorus girl's slipper...