Word: pulaski
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...that time, the Navy asked Chaplain Gatlin to resign. He refused, was thereupon relieved from active duty because of "a definitely narrow and sectarian religious view and background . . . a disqualification for effective service-in the Navy's chaplaincy." He is now pastor of the First Baptist Church, Pulaski Tenn...
...Vermont, Pennsylvania, New York, three of the six States which make up New York City's giant milkshed, striking farmers picketed dairy plants and highways, dumped milk in the roads, poured kerosene on trucks, fired at State troopers. At Pulaski, N.Y., a woman picket was injured. At Rutland, Vt., a deputy sheriff was killed...
...also at the Holland Kelly Farm in Greenfield where the tow is operated by Strand Mikkelson, a former national champion jumper, whose somersaults delight the jumper, whose somersaults delight the onlookers. Both have performed in major sports centers, as have the native troop of professional skiers, Mikkelson, Shul and Pulaski. These men are now teaching two Greenfield girls who, as high school students, were jumping more than 150 feet...
...Philadelphia, trustees of an estate were refused civic permission to carry out their trust: to erect bronze statues of four Revolutionary War generals in front of Independence Hall. Puzzled, they turned the statues of Generals LaFayette, Montgomery, Pulaski and Steuben over to the Philadelphia Orphans' Court...
...Like Kosciuszko, Polish adjutant to General Washington who fought devoutly for an alien cause, Pulaski fought as a Brigadier-General in the American Revolution. He was killed at Savannah in 1779, and is memorialized by a fine equestrian statue in bronze in Washington and by a titanic $21,000,000 elevated highway over the filthy flats of New Jersey...