Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outsmell those of Army-camp construction (TIME, Sept. 15), the Senate Defense Investigating Committee last week went after the defense housing program. No sooner had the first witness opened his mouth than one of Washington's smoldering feuds-Federal Works Administrator John Carmody v. Defense Housing Coordinator Charles Palmer-burst into flame. Witness Carmody put his finger on Witness-to-be Palmer as Housing Mismanager...
...Tiff. In Palmer, Mass., a 71-year-old man with one arm was found guilty of assaulting an 86-year-old man with one leg in an argument about women...
...without reason did Crowell's board chairman, Joseph Palmer Knapp, call her "the best man in the business...
...floruit was in one of the great age of Harvard. The names of his colleagues were trumpet blats calling to the banquet of literature and philosophy: James, Royce, and Palmer, Santayana, Baker, Briggs, Perry. Copeland, like Santayana, happily is still with us, as friends remember with effectionate esteem. But such galaxies of eminence are not to be picked up in a forenoon's shopping tour of the academic counters, and neither are they fostered by professional purges...
...Oakland, Calif., wealthy Corporal Palmer T. Beaudette paid $1,300 to charter an airliner to take him back to camp on time, announced when he arrived in Seattle that he was engaged to cinemambitious blue-blood Cobina Wright Jr. Cobina and mother denied it. Said Beaudette: "I think I'll just forget the whole thing." .. Bryan Untiedt, schoolboy hero feted in 1931 for his rescue of 15 children from a blizzard-bound bus, married Marjorie Bowman, 22, of Denver. Untiedt, now 23, is a Denver carpenter. ...Baron Franz von Werra, Nazi flyer who fled a Canadian prison camp...