Word: lawton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frederick Clarke Lawton...
...good friend, Congressman Carl Vinson, into frenzied cries that it smacked "of the Kaiser, of Hitler and of Japanese militarism." The President's plan, with the notable addition of the three assistant secretaries for land, sea and air, was the same plan presented by Lieut. General Joseph Lawton ("Lightning") Collins* (TIME...
Each year has its crop of big babies. Doctors, who believe what they see, list a 25-lb. stillborn girl in 1916 as the largest on U.S. record. Last week medium-sized Mrs. Francis Strohl, 38, wife of a Lawton, Pa. lumberman, gave birth to a baby girl who would be hefty in any year: 18 Ibs. The child, her mother's 15th, was reported in fine condition...
...Lawton, Okla., ex-Marine Bennett Savage, wounded on Bougainville, ran the Oklahoma Club, a night spot whose best customers were soldiers from nearby Fort Sill. Proprietor Savage needed no G.I. loan. He invested $12,000 he had made in similar, prewar ventures. His future: "I'll stick as long as the business is good...
...Rundstedt was trying to do a big left hook to the River Meuse. There was not much there-there was damn little there-so I collected here and there, pulled in divisions and formed an army corps under that very fine American General Collins [Major General J. Lawton Collins...