Word: marylands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After six days of picking his way through Manila's rubble in the heavy heat of Luzon, Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings, the Senate's expert on U.S. territories, abruptly emplaned for home. He had come with greying, ailing President Sergio Osmeña, back on his native soil after a two-month sojourn in the U.S. He had conferred with General Douglas MacArthur; he had pledged "fair and generous" treatment to the near-bankrupt Philippines during their transition period toward independence (to be granted by July...
April 30: "Governor Herbert O'Conor of Maryland is mentioned for the Attorney Generalship...
Lieutenant Colonel Robert R. Bowie, AUS, former Assistant Attorney General of Maryland and currently in Europe with the American Group of Allied Control Council, will take up duties as professor of Law here effective July 1, Dean James M. Landis revealed Sunday. Bowie graduated magna cum laude from the Harvard Law School in 1934 and subsequently entered the service of the War Department with civilian status as legal assistant to the Headquarters Army Service Force...
...morning of May 4 an eerie blue-white light flashed across a cloud-heavy sky. Seconds later, a series of explosions and tremors shook houses and rattled windows in eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland. Thousands of people, startled awake, flooded police stations and newspaper offices with phone calls. What had happened? No one knew, at first...
...cause her political embarrassment in Berlin; a scene in a raw Western U.S. town, in which Anna Maria calms the beavered natives by executing, as Salome, the hootchy-kootchy; a scene in which she reforms the quondam Confederate, turned local bandit, by her snarling contralto rendition of Der Tannenbaum (Maryland! My Maryland!); San Francisco in its heyday, which includes 1) an infatuated Russian multimillionaire (Walter Slezak), 2) the attempted pirating of a Chinese junk, 3) its sagacious proprietor, who speaks Oriental proverbs in Edinburr dialect, 4) a duel with rapiers on a blood-red floor, 5) a hair-raising stagecoach...