Word: marylands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other officers elected were Robert B. Wilcox '44, of Winthrop House and Winnetka, Illinois, vice-president, and Charles R. Weaver '44, of Lowell House and Garrett Park, Maryland, secretary...
...takes pleasure in announcing the election of the following officers to next semester's executive board: Hugh Calkins '45 of Winthrop House and Newton, as President; Armand Schwab, Jr. '45 of Eliot House and New York City, as Managing Editor; James G. Nuland '45 of Eliot House and Westgate, Maryland, as Business Manager; Leonard S. Wright '45 of Milton, as Editorial Chairman; E. Thomas Binger '46 of Adams House and St. Paul, Minnesota, as Photographic Chairman: and Colin F. N. Irving '45 of Eliot House and Brookline as Executive Editor...
...rain-splashed Maryland hilltop last week stood a shivering band of Army generals, colonels, majors and news correspondents. Below them, spread over a sea of yellow muck, was an amazing spectacle. An M-4 (General Sherman) tank lumbered noisily through the mud, nosed down into a shell hole, up the other side, paused before the generals' hill, then roared away. At its heels came a lighter tank, a General Stuart, followed rank on rank by U.S. gun carriers, tanks, armored cars, combination gun & man carriers in seemingly endless variety, the newest and most formidable mechanized weapons of a nation...
...other battleships have been raised. The slightly damaged Pennsylvania, Maryland and Tennessee went back with the fleet months ago. So did the three cruisers, the seaplane tender and repair ship. The California, Nevada and West Virginia have been, or are being, repaired and outfitted with modern guns and machines. Even the destroyer Shaw, which did not seem to be worth 35?, was "sewed" together and sent to the U.S. mainland, where it was rebuilt. For the most remarkable salvage job in naval engineering history the U.S. could thank Captain Homer N. Wallin and the thousands of naval and civilian workers...
Napoleon Edward Taylor worked in a Baltimore packing house until he was inducted into a Maryland Negro regiment. In a year or so he was off on a troopship. On June 17, months before the invasion of Morocco and Algeria, Private Taylor and an unrevealed number of his fellow soldiers found themselves off the coast of Africa. They were there to make a peaceful and secret invasion of the Negro republic of Liberia...