Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wave of Indecision. In Washington, Lieut. Commander Bernice Boner decided to end it all, jumped from a 90-ft. Potomac bridge, changed her mind in midair, was glad she could swim so well...
...Kentucky, fumbling Representative Andrew J. May, in the deepest and most unsavory trouble of his career was renominated without opposition. To oppose him Republicans nominated former Navy Lieut. W. Howes Meade, 34-year-old attorney and political novice...
...Lieut. Douglas A. Cowin's 42-man Marine detachment had a routine mission: to carry six truckloads of supplies up the 75-mile route from Tientsin to Peiping. Because they had been fired on before in this area, bitterly contested by Chinese Communist and Nationalist armies, the marines traveled in an armed convoy of weapons carriers, staff cars and jeeps. At high noon, on a paved road near Anping, the mission ceased to be routine...
...Lieut. Cowin fell, fatally wounded. Under Major Fred. J. Freese, a U.S. Army Special Service officer, the marines dug in for an all-day fight. But, after four hours, they had run out of mortar shells. Major Freese seized on a lull, ordered his men to make a break. In Peiping that night the weary detachment completed its mission. Its casualties: three killed, twelve wounded...
...regarded as vindication, and in a sense it was. To the Senate, California's Senator Sheridan Downey announced that General Eisenhower had reviewed the case and "removed any bar" to Kennedy's reaccrediting as an Army correspondent. Into the Congressional Record went: 1) a memo from Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, ex-SHAEF chief of staff, which said the Germans had made their Flensburg broadcast under Allied orders; 2) a War Department letter fixing its time as an hour and 54 minutes ahead of Kennedy's release...