Word: shelterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German Armies last May was Sir Lancelot Oliphant, British Ambassador to Belgium, a tall dome-headed career diplomat. From Berlin last week came a report that Sir Lancelot, still in custody in northern Germany, stood on his diplomatic prerogatives, flatly refused to go to an air-raid shelter when R. A. F. bombers appeared. "I am the British Ambassador," he snorted, "and I bloody well will not go down when the British planes are overhead...
...University of Washington. Born in Saxon Germany 55 years ago, Frederick Kirsten once terrified the town of Grossenhain by enveloping it in a smoke screen, ran away to sea at 17 in a three-masted windjammer, jumped ship in Tacoma with $1.50 in his pocket. He first sought shelter with a farmer whose daughter he eventually married. Someone persuaded him to enter the University of Washington. He worked his way through the school of electrical engineering, putting in eight hours a day as a power station operator, graduated at the top of his class, became an assistant professor...
...months ago, the Battle of Flanders sent the New York Stock Exchange into a tailspin, forced the Dow-Jones industrials average to its lowest point since 1938 (111.84). Result: many a U. S. corporation that had planned new financing ran for shelter instead. The capital market crouched for a long, scared wait...
...distance, a low rumbling burst into a roar as a climbing pillar of flame shot skywards from the oil tanks on the docks. Incredulously, St. Maloans listened as the sound of gunfire rolled up from the harbor, ducked wildly for shelter as British bombers and fighter planes slanted down to their targets...
Combining the efforts of various U. S. relief agencies, the Allied Relief Fund, under President Winthrop W. Aldrich, began a drive for $5,000,000 to shelter refugee children in America, received unsolicited checks before the campaign even started from ex-Torchsinger Libby Holman Reynolds Holmes ($250), many another. Money will be spent by the U. S. Committee for Care of Europe's Children, of which Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt is honorary chairman (TiME, July...