Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...L. E. DAVIDSON Captain, A.U.S...
...British finally caught Rudolf Hoess in a farmhouse near Lüneburg where he had been hiding. They would soon put him on trial as a war criminal. In some ways, perhaps, he was the greatest of them all. He told his story with quiet authority, as though lecturing to a class, underscoring his points with deliberate gestures of his well-kept hands. He still sounded rather bored; only occasionally did he show signs of nervousness-when he reached for his hip pocket, as though searching...
Leaders of the United Textile Workers of America (A.F. of L.) planned a campaign for a 15?-an-hour increase. They, too, talked strike...
...editors, the greatest pedants going, shot up. It was, said the New York Times stiffly, a "remarkable sentence." But college professors, quickly appealed to, proved as disappointing as Balaam. To a man, they put their O.K. on Churchill's grammar-defying "This is me" (a usage that H. L. Mencken, in The American Language, has already admitted to "conversational respectability, even among rather careful speakers of English"). Said Yale's Robert D. French: men like Churchill make the English language. Seconded Princeton's Gordon H. Gerould: idiomatic English is good speech, prissy English is not. Said Columbia...
Died. Vice Admiral Howard L. Vickery, 53, wartime vice chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif. He steered Henry Kaiser into shipbuilding, plumped loudly for a long-range program to make the U.S. a postwar maritime power...