Word: leland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Another garrison finish: at Baker Field, after Columbia and Syracuse had struggled scorelessly for more than 59 minutes, Syracuse's 145-pound Sophomore Leland Morris drop-kicked a field goal in the last 40 seconds, upset Columbia...
...ATTACK-Leland Jamieson-Morrow...
Significantly different from these books of doom in pulse, pace and outlook is a story of war and sudden death by U. S. Author Leland Jamieson. It is a simple, all-action narrative (recently serialized in the Saturday Evening Post) about outnumbered U. S. planes and a power-diving hero in an undeclared Blitzkrieg against the U. S. Fatigue sickens the young airman, fear of death cramps his stomach muscles, terror of being lost at sea in the night momentarily deprives him of his senses. But the last thing he thinks about is the end of the world...
Born on an Oregon farm, he went to Leland Stanford University. Like his running mate, he was a lawyer. He began his political career in 1906 as an Assistant District Attorney. In 1917 he went to the Senate. Still a farmer at heart, whenever he can leave Washington he makes tracks for Salem, Ore., where he owns a farm, bird sanctuary, an experimental laboratory, in which he developed the world's largest prune, the Imperial. Nuts are also a hobby, especially filberts...
...mutual good of preparedness. To the Defense Advisory Commission have come two key ambassadors of the power industry: Charles Wetmore Kellogg, president of Edison Electric Institute, and Gano Dunn, president of construction-engineers J. G. White Engineering Corp. To work with them, the President assigned quiet, round-cheeked, scholarly Leland Olds, Chairman of the New Dealish Federal Power Commission, who has been running the National Power Policy Committee analysis of emergency power needs which Assistant Secretary of War Louis Arthur Johnson got started a year and a half ago (TIME...