Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When OPM was set up, William Knudsen grabbed Cap Krug. When OPM became WPB he went along. He received a Naval commission in 1944, was sent to Normandy, then Italy, but was hauled home to replace Donald Nelson as chief...
...There were dissenters. Many a thoughtful U.S. citizen asked what State Department policy was, anyhow. Why had Edward R. Stettinius Jr. and idealistic Nelson Rockefeller, presumably having much of the dope on the Argentines at the time, led the fight for Argentina's admission to the UNO at San Francisco last April? Others, including many a Latin, noted that the U.S. attack came at the climax of the Argentine presidential campaign, called it intervention...
...Nelson & the Neckerchief...
...your issue of Jan. 14 you state, concerning the dress reform in the U.S. Navy, that the black neckerchief is worn to mourn the death of Nelson...
...sometimes used so as to protect the coat from the pigtail, but its real use was as a sweat rag worn around the neck or forehead; it was generally black in colour because this showed the dirt least. The black silk was in general use some years before Nelson's death; it may have been worn as mourning for him following the precedent of the ship's company of the Berwick who, in 1794, went into mourning for their Captain by cutting the silk in half and wearing half round their hat and the other half on their...