Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...previously released, the 790 new men expected by the Army Specialized Training School will not begin checking in until sometime today and even then will only be represented by 80 of their number, it was announced, by Regimental Headquarters. These men will be supplemented by 220 trainees in the latter part of this week and the beginning of next week...
Thus a fissure widened between the men who cannot escape the Party label and those who stand ready to assert that they merely endured it. For the former the cue now was: hang on and hope for a stalemate; for the latter: get this war over with as quickly as possible-and make sure the English-speaking armies march into Berlin first...
...have known Douglas MacArthur since shortly after he graduated from West Point. Before that I knew his mother and father, and served under the latter in the Philippine Islands. . . . Douglas MacArthur has NOT devoted a lifetime to training for MILITARY leadership. His life has been devoted to training for LEADERSHIP in its widest definition. He has proved his capacity by demonstration, as a soldier, a civil administrator and an executive of civilian affairs...
...course it is a secret where they are going. Mel wouldn't dare tell any of his "thoughtful" friends this dark secret--not since he heard what the Smith boys of Company C did to their "dear" name. sake, Hollister Smith, on the latter's wedding night several weeks ago.. The boys were so solicitous of Hollister's welfare that they called him long distance--Cambridge to New York City--just to ask him how he was. He mumbled an "all right" from his hotel room in New York and hung up. It is even rumored that the charges...
Died. Rudger Clawson, 86, president of the Council of Twelve Apostles of the Latter-day Saints; in his native Salt Lake City. Son of an associate of Mormon Founder Joseph Smith, one of the last who saw Brigham Young, plain, gentle, white-thatched Apostle Clawson served most of a four-year Federal sentence for bigamy committed in 1883. Long an able hierarch, in his lifetime he traveled 576,000 miles on church business...