Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Enough has been given so far to completely equip one air-raid shelter, purchase several pair of shoes, and some children's knitted underwear," was the statement from E. Bernard Fleischaker '42, chairman of the drive. All funds collected go to British War Relief to purchase supplies here for shipment...
...robbery and the rape and murder that might be committed." New York's Isolationist Ham Fish offered an amendment (defeated) to provide "dugouts, tin helmets, asbestos suits and gas masks for the members of Congress, the Chief Executive, and the Justices of the Supreme Court . . . air-raid sirens on all public buildings except the Department of Labor. ..." Well over a third of the chamber kept out of the discussion and the voting-not knowing what to say or how to vote...
...China last fortnight Franklin Roosevelt's oldest son Jimmy addressed Hong Kong's American Club, last week shook hands with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in Chungking, heard his first air-raid alarm (minus planes), got ready to fly to Cairo for a firsthand view of British Near East strategy. Seeking Pacific Clip per passage for himself and Major Gerald Thomas, his companion, Jimmy had found the Clipper booked up. Most vulnerable reservation was that of a U.S. General. Captain Roosevelt...
Gordon was in his apartment at the time of the raid and received a tremendous shake-up. Furniture was over-turned, window glass showered the room, and the apartment door was blown into the hall. Wiping the blood from his injured head, Gordon crawled into the hall where he was found by a first-aid worker...
German bombs gave two Faculty members their first taste of modern warfare recently when John E. Gordon, Charles Wilder Professor of Preventive Medicine, and Paul V. Beeson, in charge of the University Public Health Unit, received minor injuries in a London air raid...