Word: pa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army has taken over for its redistribution centers makes G.I. guests gasp. After a fortnight of top-priced splendor ($30 a day for two) at Asheville's Grove Park Inn (cost for soldiers, nothing; for soldiers wives, $1.50 a day) Corporal and Mrs. Harry Paczynski of Erie, Pa. were still pinching themselves. Said Mrs. Paczynski, after wandering through the huge, hushed lounge of the great grey stone pile: "Sometimes I wonder if I'm dreaming...
Died. James Edward ("Pa") Ferguson, 73, homespun, gallus-snapping Texas politico; of apoplexy; in Austin, Tex. In 1917, during his second term as Texas' Governor, he was impeached for using state funds to pay private debts. Barred from further office-holding in Texas, Pa sponsored his wife "Ma" on a bargain billing, "Get two Governors for the price of one." Ma served two terms as Governor (at public functions she always slipped off her shoes to rest her bunions), signed over 3,000 pardons on Pa's advice...
ELIZABETH NORRIS LYNCH Merion, Pa. ¶ TIME forwarded Reader Lynch's $50 check to ex-Army Air Forces Chaplain Ayers, now a Presbyterian pastor in Wilkes-Barre, who says he will use the money to develop an inter-faith committee on "religion and returning service personnel...
Mayor Claude A. Lord of Pottsville, Pa. (pop. 24,530) boasted of the "first comprehensive plan for Victory Day." Sample: "The signal is the ringing of all church bells and the tying down of whistles and sirens for a continuous signal.. . . Plans have been made by the Mayor to start a big parade. . . . This will act as an outlet for people's enthusiasm...
Married. Pfc. Alton W. Knappen-berger, 20, Nazi-slaying "one man army of Anzio"; and Ruth Eickhoff, 16, his home town sweetheart; in Red Hill, Pa. The Congressional Medal of Honor winner was told to "speak up" when applying for the license, later delayed the marriage ceremony by forgetting the document, had to run back...