Word: poletti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Lodge's own Class of 1924, which is celebrating its twenty-fifth reunion, come the Rev. Russell Sturgis Hubbard, Episcopal bishop of Detroit; Charles Poletti, former lieutenant governor of New York; Judge Peter Woodbury of the United States Court of Appeals; novelists Oliver LaFarge and F. Van Wyck Mason; Editor William L. White of the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette; and Earl L. Brown of Life Magazine...
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who would "neither confirm nor deny" reports that he was politics-bound, joined a new Manhattan law firm-Poletti, Diamond, Rabin, Freidin and Mackay...
...silver star, had waited for orders to fly to North Africa, perhaps dreaming of marching into Rome at the head of U.S. columns. But a Congressional hubbub over "political generals" had stopped the appointment cold; Franklin Roosevelt sent to Italy two other New York Democrats, lameduck Charles Poletti, ex-lieutenant governor, and William O'Dwyer, Brooklyn's D.A.-on-leave...
...Lieut. Colonel Charles Poletti, former Acting Governor of New York, now Civil Governor of Rome...
...fellow administrators, he has done another service. Reasoning that many of them literally did not know how to define or detect a Fascist, he spelled out a complete but simple list of definitions. General Mason-Macfarlane liked the Poletti list so much that he made it a standard guide in all of Allied Italy...