Word: mcmillin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet, high above the Navy planes, a lone B-29 droned around. It carried no bombs: its job was to photograph the results of the carrier planes' bombing. Aboard the Superfort was a Navy observer, Lieut, (j.g.) David C. McMillin, listening to the carrier air group commanders and pilots over the inter-plane circuit. He heard...
Guam was easy. Captain George Johnson McMillin, whom the 22,000 Chamorros call King of Guam, could see from his 300-year-old palace the heavily fortified Japanese island of Rota. His kingdom had only one natural harbor and only one landing field. It was, thanks to the fact that certain U.S. Congressmen had not been able to see farther than the west bank of the Potomac River, unfortified. When zero hour came, Japanese warships shelled the island, setting fire to the oil reservoir and all the principal buildings. According to Japanese reports, the flag of the Rising Sun rose...
...miles an hour, wiped out the banana crop. 90% of the coconut crop, all garden crops-chief livelihood of some 20,000 natives-smashed the Pan American Hotel and U. S. Navy hangar, left 40 American families and 15,000 natives homeless. When it was over, Governor McMillin called for Red Cross aid. First reports indicated that the typhoon approached the scale of the great blow of 1900. But that storm cost 20 lives; last week's, none. What damage, if any, the storm did to Japanese air and sea bases on surrounding islands, the Japanese kept to themselves...
...morning last week 800 members of Columbia University's faculty gathered in the dark, gloomy McMillin Theatre on their campus. They were puzzled, apprehensive. Summoned by 78-year-old President Nicholas ("Miraculous") Murray Butler to an unprecedented convocation of the whole faculty, the professors buzzed with speculation about the meeting's purpose. Some concluded that President Butler was about to announce a salary...
Cord's hero was Joe McMillin's brother, Congressman Benton McMillin, a rock of old-line Democracy, a low-tariff man, an advocate of a high income tax law on those millionaires back East. In Bent's buggy at campaign time, young Hull absorbed demo cratic doctrine. It was Bent McMillin who later drafted the first U. S. income tax law, killed by the Supreme Court; and it was Cordell Hull, many years later, who drafted the income tax law (1913) that stands today...