Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along with 45 Yale men, the neophyte shavetails moved into their canvas homes in the midst of the Vermont wilderness, practically in the shadow of Mount Mansfield, on June 21, and moved out on August 2 after a month and a half of army life...
Started this week by OPM's labor division was a survey of five cities where the effect of priorities was closest at hand and likely to hurt the most: Meadville, Pa. (zippers); Mansfield, Ohio (refrigerators and electrical appliances) ; Evansville, Ind. (refrigerators and automotive appliances) ; Quincy, Ill. (stove foundries); Newton, Iowa (washing machines). After the survey, OPM hoped to give these areas new defense work*- using the power it obtained last month to write compulsory subcontracting, plus special treatment for blighted communities, into Army & Navy contracts. Question was whether enough could be done, or whether it could be done...
Jekyll and Hyde was an instant bestseller and a boon to hundreds of sermon-seeking clerics. Richard Mansfield read it and induced his friend Thomas Russell Sullivan to adapt the "shilling shocker" for the stage. He played it in London and all over the U.S. until he died 20 years later. Two notable film versions of the play were made: one by John Barrymore in 1920-looking like a fur cap-the other by Fredric March-looking like Gargantua-in 1931. Both cinemactors played it successfully as pure horror, without fretting over the psychological implications...
...military and naval committees. Moodily the committee contemplated a project of which it is suspicious: the President's pet, the $285,000,000 St. Lawrence Seaway. The committee had stalled, still was far from a decision. Then the President suddenly wrote a friendly letter to Chairman Joseph Jefferson Mansfield, saying he would not oppose including the Seaway in an omnibus appropriation bill. This was the signal the wolves were waiting for; the door to the icebox was flung open. All of the Presidentially refrigerated cuts of pork were dragged from the hooks, even the long-dead...
Eilot Hubbard 3rd Cambridge, Mass.; Robert M. Jenney, Brookline, Mass.; Frank C. Langdon, La Grange, I11,; Joseph A. Locke Jr., Newton Center, Mass,; Richard D. Mansfield, Somerville, Mass.; Wilbur Marvin Hollis...