Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Battle of Midway, Halsey was ailing and unavailable. Nimitz sent Raymond Ames Spruance out first with two carriers, then Frank Jack Fletcher with the Yorktown. As senior, Fletcher took overall command, but when the Yorktown retired from the fight, crippled, Spruance carried on. The victory ended the Jap threat to Hawaii, the Panama Canal and the U.S. itself. It was the turning point of the Pacific war. In announcing the triumph, Nimitz punned: "We are about midway to our objective...
...Mayflower Hotel apartment in Washington lay Carter Glass, dean of the U.S. Senate. Now 87, the distinguished senior Senator from Virginia was frail and silent, enfeebled by age and long illness. Not for more than two years had he answered a roll call on the Senate floor. Virginia's junior Senator, round-faced, economy-minded Harry Byrd, had carried on for both...
Straight from the bickering Balkans comes an editor who spent nine months as a correspondent in Turkey, Bulgaria, Rumania and the Aegean Isles - Percy Knauth . . . From the battles in Italy and southern France comes a Senior Editor fresh from his second wartime assignment to Europe - John Osborne . . . From Egypt and the Middle East comes a TIME correspondent who has been on the Dark Continent all his life, most recently in Cairo -who knows Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan, Tripolitania and the Sudan intimately and uncomfortably - South African-born John Barkham . . . And from buzz-bombed Britain comes the man who has been...
Died. Francis T. Maloney, 50, New Dealing senior U.S. Senator from Connecticut; of a heart attack; in Meriden. In 22 years, he rose from counterman in an all-night lunchroom to city editor of the Meriden Record, to Mayor, to Congressman, to U.S. Senator. He had become known as an able though infrequent orator, a "Senator's Senator...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, senior warden of St. James's Episcopal Church, Hyde Park, N.Y., was presented with a 120-year-old family Bible, once owned by the second wife of his maternal great-grandfather, Warren Delano. It was found in the attic of the old Delano house in New Bedford, Mass...