Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Break. Last week Bertram Campbell, now a $50-a-week bookkeeper, was suddenly and dramatically cleared; proved, at last, was the fact that he had not been the forger. The culprit was none other than Alexander D. L. Thiel, the horseplaying, narcotic-spurred wizard of forgery who in some 40 years had left a $500,000 trail of bogus checks over the U.S. (TIME, April...
...Japanese . . . are asking for invasion and they are going to get it."-Rear Admiral Arthur W. Radford. CJ Redeployment and retraining of U.S. troops will be speeded to permit the delivery of "a single crushing blow. . . . There's no use doing it piecemeal."-General Jacob L. Devers...
...Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson left Potsdam for home and told reporters at Frankfurt that the conference was working on "discrepancies...
...Mumbled Léon Blum, 73, Socialist Premier of France's Popular Front Government (1936-37): "The Marshal . . . used his personality . . . and his prestige to lead France into shame. ... I call that treason." (Twice Léon Blum broke down and cried. The Marshal, who once tried Blum for war guilt at Riom, eyed him without visible emotion...
...Institute of Radio Engineers was closeted to discuss military secrets. President W. L. Everitt leaned forward with a conspirator's expression and solemnly announced: "Gentlemen, the Army & Navy have now finally given , permission to use the word radar - provided you spell it backwards." Washington has been grinning over this story for weeks. For censorship officers, the story has a double sting: they are well aware that radar has been one of the worst-kept secrets of the war. A favorite gag pictures a mother remarking to her husband: "John, don't you think we ought to tell Junior...