Word: news
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as news of his removal spread, officers crowded his office to shake his hand. A delegation of 250 enlisted men trooped in and a chief petty officer, acting as spokesman, said: "If they can do this to a man like you, what is to happen to us? ... We feel that the Navy is shot ..." Replied Denfeld fervently: "No service and no individual will stop the Navy." Later in the week, when four-star Louis Denfeld took his seat at the Navy-Notre Dame football game in Baltimore, more than 3,000 midshipmen waved their caps and cheered wildly...
After that, he was out of the news. Suffering from a weakened heart, Big Ed took things easy at his own estate and at the Greenwich, Conn, estate of his wife's brother, Juan Trippe, president of Pan American Airways. There this week, nine days after his 49th birthday, death came to friendly Ed Stettinius...
...airborne missionary brought the feverish tale to Fairbanks: a trapper named Clifton Carrol had found gold nuggets "as big as peas" sticking to a fish wheel he was running in the Yukon River, 20 miles below Fort Yukon. The news licked through the town's old log cabins like fire, blazed in its neon-trimmed bars, spread to the big Army hangars at Ladd Field. It was carried across the Territory by radio. The Fishwheel Stampede...
Disillusionment spread through the camp: many a man had gambled his season's savings on the stampede, hardly knowing why. The miners demanded that the original nuggets be sent to Fairbanks to be tested. Next day a plane brought copies of the Fairbanks News-Miner with a sad story. All but two of the nuggets were brass. And the two (total worth: $2) were worn, as if they had been carried for a long time in a poke or pocket...
Schmidt, who had been unable to get a job while the law debated his morals, was grateful, but detached, about the whole thing. "I understand the Anglo-American behavior pattern of saving face," he said cheerfully. "Very wise decision, we calls it," said the non-moralistic New York Daily News. "If U.S. citizenship were to be conferred only on alien married people and virgins of both sexes-well, we ask you." The Immigration Service sulked. It announced sturdily that it would continue to apply its "normal Christian standards." Snapped an official: "There is no use to subject the rest...