Word: marylands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shore Patrol's efficiency is not Navy-bred. It was brought in with 300 tough, intelligent, hand-picked policemen, including four attorneys, Maryland's former hangman, New York patrolmen, detectives and constables, and highway cops from eastern and southern states. Fifteen of the 25 members of the Negro division are college graduates...
...strictly nobody. In 1918 he opened his first movie theater modestly in Gloversville, N.Y. It was an old roller-skating rink which he converted with a borrowed $1,500. Last week Schine, now owner of a chain of some 150 theaters in New York, Ohio, Kentucky, Delaware and Maryland, lolled in Miami. When asked what he did up north, he retorted, "I sit and watch snowflakes slide down windowpanes. What else is there to do in the North?" But he hinted that he would not be so idle in Florida. After the war he plans to build an addition...
...Army & Navy Journal said that General Marshall had personally picked Major General Milton A. Reckord (onetime head of the Maryland National Guard) as Provost Marshal (head of military police) for the European theater...
...Constitutional? Maryland's legal-minded Millard Tydings, who finally voted for the bill anyhow, cracked: "We are all stretching the rubber band of constitutional sufficiency in order to support the pending measure...
Wayne Johnson, Jr., of Worton, Maryland, played on Harvard's 1942 football team as fullback. This year he was sent to Yale as a Marine trainee and, although injured early in the season, has just received his "Y" from Yale coach Howll Odell, thus becoming the first player in football history to win both his "H" from Harvard and his "Y" from the Elis...