Word: serviceman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When he reaches the U.S., the homing serviceman is given a card. If he chooses to fill it out, it is sent to his home-town newspapers and public officials as an announcement of his return. In no case is anyone supposed to be notified while the returning soldier...
...credited with the tricky job of persuading Brazil to give the U.S. World War II air bases. Natty Diplomat Caffery keeps his figure trim by swimming, climbing mountains, and forgoing lunch. Shy, nervous and addicted to bad puns, he is highly regarded by the Department as a painstaking foreign serviceman who plugs away to carry out orders, digs hard for facts, wins the respect of foreigners, and keeps Washington well-informed with terse, one-page reports...
...SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD...
...SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD) New York City
Happily endorsing a reader's suggestion that every Christmas box sent to a U.S. serviceman overseas should include a small gift for a child, the Living Church last week observed: "This Christmas . . . American servicemen will be scattered all over the world. . . . Almost everywhere there will be children, ragged, undernourished, embittered. What better token of the joy of the Incarnation could be found than a children's Christmas all over the world...