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...exiled, has been trying to make a political comeback since 1937. He entered the campaign as an independent, played his cards so shrewdly that he got the backing of both the old-line rightist parties (Liberals and Conservatives). Though he is also backed by Chile's pee-wee Nazi party, General Ibáñez claims he is no totalitarian, merely a strong nationalist...
Cause of the order was bantamweight Brigadier General James I. Muir, commander of the 44th Division. In the battle of the Carolinas, General Muir had to get his outfit across the dried-up Pee Dee River, where the only available bridge had been "destroyed" and he could not get his motorized equipment across the rocky river bed. His solution: an order to the custodian of a power dam upstream to give him some water. The custodian deferred to military might. When the river had risen two feet, the General's engineers took guns and trucks across on improvised floats...
...maneuvers opening, Hugh Drum's Blue Army of 200,000 was in position east of the Pee Dee River. Fifty miles west were the Reds...
General Griswold's first thrust was swift. While his fast-moving troops headed east, he dispatched his bombers, "smashed" every bridge across the Pee Dee. The Blues crossed anyhow. A cavalry outfit swam the Pee Dee. Others crossed by pontoons flung across the stream and by the bridges themselves, which became usable again after "repairs...
...dear dignity's sake, two jazzmen prepared to slough their nicknames. As opening wedge, "Pee Wee" Irwin demanded billing as George "Pee Wee" Irwin. "Muggsy" Spanier became Francis "Muggsy" Spanier. "Fats" Waller, "Cootie" Williams, "Wingy" Mannone, "Buster" Bailey stood...