Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With that, two reporters ran for the executive office to break the news of Lieut. Governor Melvin E. Thompson's court victory to narrow-eyed, young Herman ("Hummon") Talmadge, the "Pretender." Hummon looked dignified in a grey chalk-stripe suit and red tie, but when he heard the news he blurted: "What judges voted against me?" When the reporter shrugged, Hummon told his secretary to find out. Then he picked up the phone and snapped: "Get me Mrs. Talmadge...
...Next day Lieut. Governor Oscar Rennebohm, 57, was sworn in as acting governor. A wealthy, self-made man who built a bankrupt drug store into a prosperous chain, he is a political neophyte. He owns a palatial, 14-room house overlooking Lake Mendota, during the summer spends most of his spare time on his 175-acre dairy farm. He is closely associated with the G.O.P. machine. Said Boss Coleman: "He will serve the state very well...
...people's councils to take over their own government as soon as Japan surrendered. In Dr. Syngman Rhee, long an exile and Korea's most distinguished and provocative spokesman, they had a man qualified to head an interim regime. But in Washington last week Rhee complained that Lieut. General John R. Hodge, head of the occupation forces, had prematurely insisted on an all-embracing coalition. Liberation from the Japanese, said Rhee, had not brought liberty. Instead it had left Koreans in a worse plight physically than under 40 years of Japanese misrule. Though he wanted U.S. troops...
...Lieut. John Wardle, commanding one of His Majesty's small (100-odd feet) motor minesweepers, was no Captain Bligh. Last week a Royal Court Martial sentenced Wardle to dismissal from his command and forfeiture of three months' seniority...
Fourteen Jewish G.I.s have come to Lieut. Abramowitz for permission to marry Fraulein. Rejecting every application, he has explained...