Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plates and a Urim and Thummim (stones fastened in silver bows) which enabled him to translate it. The result of Seer Smith's labors was the Book of Mormon, which ever since has been the treasured gospel of the sect he founded, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints...
Sweet revenge to onetime Dentist Marquet, described as a combination of Huey Long, Don Juan and Hitler, was the purging of Daladier. In 1934 the ex-Premier suggested the possibility of a Cabinet post to Marquet. "I'll take the Interior or nothing," the latter declared and confided to a colleague, "Now that there are a couple of two-fisted men at the helm like Daladier and myself, there is nothing to fear." He did not get the post, and became anti-Daladier...
Italy's forces in Libya under fierce Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, who succeeded Italo Balbo when the latter was killed, could be reinforced from Italy's total reserves at home as long as Italian transports could safely cross the Mediterranean. Water is the direst military factor in Libya. In East Africa, reinforceable only by air (because Suez would be plugged before being surrendered), Italy had one white division (Savoy Grenadiers) of 21,391 men, seven native militia legions (50,000), 70,000 white farmers and workers trained as a militia reserve. Her airplanes there, which could be added...
...clients, Kahn preaches to his staff that the client's analysis of the problem is the first step to its solution. Clients who have appreciated this approach include (besides virtually the entire automotive industry) the Governments of the U. S. and the U. S. S. R. For the latter, as consultant on the First Five Year Plan, Kahn designed factories at Stalingrad, Chelyabinsk, Kuznetsk, Nizhni-Tagil. Brother Moritz handled the job. For the U. S. he has just done the plans for $25,000,000 worth of new naval air bases at Midway Island, Honolulu, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Jacksonville...
...Chief of the B. E. F., unassigned to a new high post since his return from France, was made only Inspecting General of Forces for Training, while to replace Sir Alan as field commander in the south of England, Lieut. General Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, 56, was named. The latter was the hard-bitten infantryman who helped wrestle Narvik from Germany's Lieut. General Eduard ("Bull") Dietl only to see it yielded due to pressure in the Lowlands...