Word: leland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brooklyn had its wind knocked out last week. The Dodgers lost the National League pennant to the smashing St. Louis Cardinals on the last day of the season. But the big loss was the Big Wind: the Dodger president, Leland Stanford ("Larry") MacPhail. Lieut. Colonel MacPhail, 52, reports next week to the Army, hopeful that his fighting experience (World War I and innumerable bar, hotel-lobby, and press-gallery fisticuffs) will get him combat duty...
Then Vanderkloot asked: "Are you a short-snorter, sir?" The rules of that august fraternity provide that if a short-snorter is unable to produce his card immediately, he must give a dollar bill to all short-snorters present. Leland Stowe's Moscow interview with the two flyers revealed that Churchill then & there made up a new rule-that he had five minutes to produce his card. He distressed Sawyers by pawing through his luggage, finally found the dollar bill inscribed with the term "short-snorter" and the date of his induction into the fraternity of transocean flyers...
...Adams H-31 KIR 1345 Lazarus, R. B. '46, Eliot B-53 ELI 0936 Leavitt, R. S. '46, Adams E-32 ELI 2958 Lee, D. '45, Eliot M-41 KIR 7192 Lehmann, E. W. '44, Adams B-16 TRO 9387 Leisy, M. '44, Winthrop C-51 ELI 2209 Leland, S. C. '44, Winthrop C-43 KIR 2794 Leopold, R. L. '44, Lowell E-43 ELI 2363 Levy, G. D. '45, Winthrop E-32 KIR 1975 Lilly, S. B. '44, Kirkland L-12 KIR 5496 Line, S. E. '45, Eliot G-53 KIR 2856 Littell, A. S. '45, Leverett...
...both Russia and her allies, the time is now. One of the best U.S. correspondents in Moscow, Leland Stowe of the Chicago Daily News, cabled last week: "A second front any time after August will be very late, if not too late. . . . In the opinion of the best qualified foreign military observers in Russia,* if a second front does not come in time to save the Caucasus, the war will be prolonged from one to three years...
...votes in 1940) includes movie-rich Beverly Hills, Bel Air and Westwood, labor and middle-class groups in Santa Monica, Culver City, western Los Angeles. From his movie friends Will Jr. hopes for campaign speeches, votes and money. He also hopes to capitalize on labor's hate for Leland Ford. It was apoplectic Mr. Ford who suggested concentration camps for labor leaders "guilty of dissension," and last year he sponsored a bill making strikes in defense industries punishable by imprisonment, even death. With a fair record on foreign policy, he is nevertheless nationally known as an "obstructionist...