Word: marylands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri got the Burke-Wadsworth Bill amended to provide that conscripts may vote "if entitled to by State laws." But under the Constitution the States determine the qualifications of voters. There are 48 different State laws on the subject, and six States-Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, Pennsylvania-make no provision for absentee voting. The Army's Judge Advocate General says that in 29 States soldiers and sailors are barred from the polls...
Although the FORTUNE poll was taken before Wendell Willkie's acceptance speech last month, an indication of the trend since then was offered by this week's Gallup poll of five "border" States: Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware. In three of the five the Gallup poll gave Roosevelt an average of 55%. In only one, Kentucky, had Willkie made a gain (1%) since the five were polled on Aug. 25. In Missouri and West Virginia he had dropped 2%, in Delaware 1%. In Maryland he had held his ground...
...first target was the flower of the Black Army: the motorized, mobile, battle-scarred Fighting First. Stationed on the Black Army's north flank, the First failed to watch the bank of the St. Lawrence, off to their right. There Hugh Drum started a flanking march by Maryland and Virginia infantry units, a company of Pennsylvania tanks. When the First came to, its supply train had been captured by the Maryland 5th Infantry, and Virginians from the Shenandoah Valley were blazing away at its rear. Said a Black artilleryman, hopelessly cut off: "We had one gun firing north, another...
...them, WPA hired John Dimmock Newsom, 46, who was born in Shanghai, brought up in France, went to Cambridge, anthropologized in Melanesia, resided in Morocco. In 1938 he became State director of the Writers' Project in Michigan. Last year he had returned to his Maryland farm when he was asked if he would try to make WPA's writers write. Soon he was doing it. Says he with an efficient snap in his voice: "This is a production unit, and it's work that counts. I've never been for art for art's sake...
...year Director Newsom has been ruling the writers, 28 State Guide Books have been published. This week even the belated Maryland Guide appeared, with sketches of Marylanders Barbara Fritchie and Wallis Warfield. With the 17 that came out under Alsberg, that leaves only three States undescribed...