Word: leavenworth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Staff has been a soldier's soldier since the day he left V. M. I. a senior cadet captain and all-Southern tackle. Honor graduate of the old Infantry-Cavalry School in 1907, he showed his administrative stuff as a student in the Staff School, stayed on at Leavenworth as an instructor for three years. General Bell, mightily impressed at the ease with which young Marshall tossed off astute, clearly written orders to cover tactical situations in maneuvers, called him the greatest U. S. military genius since Stonewall Jackson. Modest George Marshall has been trying to forget this heavy...
...This money then went into the campaign funds of candidates for every office in Union Electric's territory from alderman to Governor of Missouri. Laun, reported Shelton, kept his list of bribees under a carpet in his office. On information supplied by SEC, Al Laun went to Leavenworth three months ago, and Frank Boehm, formerly executive vice president, is now on trial for perjury in Federal court. Since the SEC hearings began, Union Electric's Missouri tax assessments have been upped...
...Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary, after serving one year of a 15-month sentence for income-tax evasion, shuffled fleshy Tom Pendergast, fallen boss of Kansas City, Mo. Not clear of the law by a long shot, he was instantly put under five-year probation (condition: no politics), arraigned on State charges of bribing a public official, released in $3,000 bail...
Donald S. Vorhees, of Leavenworth, Kans., A. B. University of Kansas '38, Lewis Larned Coburn scholarship; Jackson G. Akin Jr., of Bowling Green, Ky., A. B. Washington and Lee '40, Sidney Thompson Fairchild scholarship; George Manner, of Ithaca, N. Y. A. B. Coirnell '36, Sidney Thompson Fairchild scholarship Victor F. Weiss, of Sheboygan, Wis., Ph. B. University of Wisconsin '40, Sidney Thompson Fairchild scholarship; Jack R. Pearce, of Terre Haute, Ind., A. B. Depauw '40, George Fisher scholarship; David J. Stolzer, of Rochester, N. Y., A. B. University of Rochester '40, Felix Frankfurter scholarship...
...long in coming. There was a man out there, a man from the North, whose name was John Brown. He had a queer look in his eye and he hated the Slaves. It didn't take him long to draw the blood of Kansas. It spilled at Leavenworth, and it spilled at Lawrence, and all the while John Brown exulted in it, exulted in his rifle and in killing, killing the enemy. The calm of the nation was shattered, and once more the North and South took up the ancient battle-cries, revived the sputtering debates in Congress...