Word: oak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...equal his father's World War I record, he still needs an oak leaf for his D.S.C...
Heavy with dramatic overtones, the trial opened in the beige and dark oak Salle d'Assises, where watchmen at night saw the ghosts of the profligate Dukes of Berry and Bourbon, lingering on from the Middle Ages. The accused were two for mer Premiers, Edouard Daladier and Leon Blum, the once-great Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin, onetime Air Minister Guy La Chambre* and a controller general of a once-great Army, Pierre Jaco-met. The accusation originally had been that they led France to war, but now the Vichy Government had watered down the charge to "betrayal of duties...
...slalom, the U.S. team had an overwhelming favorite: bespectacled, oak-legged Marilyn Shaw, 17-year-old daughter of the owner of the general store at Stowe, Vt. At 15 she outran a crack field that included famed Betty Woolsey, once ranked among the world's first ten woman skiers. Last year Miss Shaw waltzed off with the ladies' U.S. slalom championship...
...army gets the fish? What does it matter whether the AF of L or the CIO organizes the Budd Manufacturing Company, so long as MacArthur gets the tanks? If the defense effort keep on going the way it is going now, Mrs. Roosevelt will be hanging from the nearest oak tree, John L. Lewis will be dangling right next to her, and Henry Ford won't know what...
Andrew H. Wright '45 of Columbus, Ohio and Holworthy was selected chairman of the Freshman Committee, and James J. McNulty '45 of Oak Park, Illinois and Thayer was elected secretary, Phillips Brooks House announced yesterday. Wright succeeds George M. Burditt, Jr. '44 at the head of the Committee...