Word: neb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Father Edward Joseph Flanagan, famed man-maker of Boys Town, Neb., went to Whittier, Calif, last week to make a little speech to the 232 tough, erring or merely mischievous inmates of California's reform school. The occasion was the inauguration of a new administrator of the school, T. A. Duffy, former Los Angeles schoolteacher. Good Father Flanagan pleaded with the boys to cooperate with the new administration "so you soon can take your normal place in society with other American boys." Five minutes later, 60 of Whittier's youngsters escaped...
...halloos with plenty of salt, and maybe just a dash of bitters. Last week rancorous, cantankerous Mr. Tobey was out front again for his first real headlines since his passion for picayune causes led him to denounce the U.S. Census last year as regimentation. Three weeks ago his sensitive neb caught the scent of convoys. Quick as a mink he came out with an anti-convoy resolution. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee quietly interred the resolution in a pigeonhole. Last week his suspicions that the President planned to convoy had passed into certainty. He decided that the President had already...
...Memoriam. In Waterloo, Neb., Editor Frank B. Cox advertised in his Douglas County Gazette: "I have for sale a very fine, large and varied assortment of Willkie buttons. Or will trade for a kidney stew or English bull dog. Only one of this collection to be reserved-lest we forget...
Already Remount is going at a clip 14 times faster than a year ago. In its three depots (Front Royal, Va.; Fort Reno, Okla.; Fort Robinson, Neb.), 56 reserve officers are in training. It has 700 thoroughbred and purebred stallions (average cost $7.50 at stud), and it is looking a long way ahead. But not ahead of more experienced armies. Germany used 200,000 horses in the Polish campaign, more in France, now has approximately 800,000 in military service. Japan used horses heavily in China, plans to have 4,500 stallions at stud by 1945. Franco had to raise...
BETTY LYMAN Omaha, Neb...