Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War I he saw action with the Kansas 8gth Division with his friend General Somervell, won a D.S.M. and Silver Star in combat duty. When World War II came he was a colonel, was shortly made a temporary brigadier general, given command of the 2nd Infantry Division at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Old Friend Somervell and Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall, whom Lee had known on the West Coast, picked him to be Eisenhower's supply...
...Carmichael has been in the middle of the war. In Australia his squadron joined the famed 19th Group which made its way out of the Philippines and Java. During the lean days of 1942 Carmichael made many a daring bombing mission over Lae, Salamaua, Rabaul, won the DSC, DFC, Silver Star. As a lieutenant colonel he took command of the 19th...
...must, he said, do certain things to give other nations complete confidence in the dollar (which is to be the key currency), such as: cancel all World War I debts ($14,256,000,000); repeal the Johnson Act; repeal all silver-purchase legislation; repeal the Gold Reserve Act amendments allowing the Treasury to trade in gold at other than the official rate of $35 per ounce; free the dollar of all exchange controls. Other items: the U.S. must also incidentally balance the federal budget, and, of course, must avoid both a postwar boom or a depression...
Killed in Action. Lieut. Commander Manning Marius Kimmel, 31, Annapolis-trained oldest son of Pearl Harbor's Rear Admiral Husband Kimmel (awaiting court-martial), winner of the Silver Star for "sinking of a significant amount of Japanese shipping"; aboard his command, the Robalo, 28th U.S. submarine lost during...
Minks Are Different. The capacity crowd at the hearing included Mrs. McLaughlin, in a flaming red dress and huge silver bracelets; a dozen McLaughlinites; 1,500 medical students in military uniform ; a troop of irritated professors and doctors; about 500 hopeful spectators...