Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born in Omaha, raised in Pittsburgh, and registered for Selective Service in Tampa. I made the mistake of giving Brooklyn as my permanent address. I have never lived there. Why is this...
Second act: Alarmed by a rumor that the U.S.S. Omaha was coming to Liberia, 15 German citizens packed up and left by fishing boat for the French Ivory Coast. According to Monrovian rumor, they did not stop running until they got to Hamburg. Crowed President Barclay Biblically: "The wicked flee when no man pursueth...
...rumor zoomed louder than others: that the President planned to lend the British a number of U. S. Navy light cruisers of the Omaha class (7,050 tons, ten 6-in. guns, four 3-in. anti-aircraft guns); a number of destroyers (not the Navy's newest, which Navy Secretary Knox calls "young cruisers"); and unlimited numbers of motor torpedo (mosquito) boats both large & small. For these the British would trade at least two spanking-new battleships of the enormous King George V class (35,000 tons, mounting ten 14-in. guns). With the two new U. S. battleships...
Forest Gillum, 56, of Omaha, wore a huge Willkie button through the Presidential campaign. When Willkie lost, exultant Democrat Abner Tunspall, 35, razzed Forest Gillum mercilessly. One day frantic Forest Gillum turned on his tormentor, cut his throat. Last week Gillum, pleading guilty to manslaughter, was sentenced to two years in prison. Said the judge, "He just reached the end of his resistance...
...Omaha next year Vance turns up, gets a job as scout in Creighton's line-building expedition. Vance takes one look at Creighton's pretty sister (Virginia Gilmore) and decides to go straight. But as the line of poles with its thin strand of wire moves slowly west, they meet a band of outlaws who steal their horses, turn the Indians against them, fire their camp. Leader of the outlaws is Vance's brother, Jack Slade (Barton MacLane). Vance's resolution wavers but in the end he proves worthy of Creighton's trust, dies...