Word: mate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Last February I was Chief Motor Machinist Mate of a Coast Guard-manned small Army F boat which carried 116 corpses from Oro Bay, New Guinea to Finschhafen, New Guinea, where a cemetery was being established for the Southwest Pacific Area...
...Erma's 36-ft. hull, to install an old marine engine, and equip her with sails and stores. The Erma was small but she was seaworthy. And the leader of the expedition, tough, blue-eyed Harri Pahlberg, was a master mariner. So was the first mate, leathery Arvid Kuun...
Divorced. John Ringling North, 42, former president of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus; by beauteous French Cinemactress Germaine Aussey Agassiz North, 35; after five years of marriage, three of separation; in Sarasota, Fla. Grounds: extreme cruelty. Example: soon after they were married, he left her to hunt for a mate for his lonely gorilla, Gargantua...
...afternoon, Harry Truman attended a ship's smoker, intently following the Navy boxers. When the portable ring collapsed and a post struck Bosun's Mate H. W. Beemans, the President scurried below deck to sick bay, checked the sailor's injuries and stayed for a short chat...
...from Charles Evans Hughes to Woodrow Wilson, because the G.O.P. candidate snubbed him in the campaign. Wilson found him no friend. Hiram harangued the Senate until U.S. adherence to the League of Nations was dead. In 1920, Johnson stubbornly ignored G.O.P. demands that he be Harding's running mate, later sulked when Coolidge succeeded to the White House. Unpredictable as ever, he supported Herbert Hoover in 1928, turned against him for Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, turned against Roosevelt on the World Court fight and the Third Term...