Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year and a half ago a WAF photo-interpreter, Flying Officer Constance Babington-Smith, gave the first alarm: she spotted a plane model in a picture taken over the German experimental station at Peenemünde. A black smudge around the model looked like the burn of a rocket blast...
...Cannon Jr., 79, longtime Southern Methodist bishop, Anti-Saloon Leaguer, head of the World League against Alcoholism; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Chicago. An implacable crusader, the bishop waged a lifetime campaign against "Rome and rum." For a decade, Southern politicians trembled at his disapproval. His 1928 denunciations of Al Smith helped to turn the Solid South toward Herbert Hoover. When his own church accused him of dabbling in Wall Street bucket shops, he wept publicly and pleaded for Christian forgiveness. The church forgave him but his fame began to fade. His first wife, mother of his nine children, died...
...Washington press conference, after his return last week from the Marianas, tough Lieut. General Holland M. Smith, commander of all the Marines in the Pacific,* was asked an embarrassing question. Was it true that he had fired one of his division commanders, the Army's Major General Ralph Smith, during the battle of Saipan...
Snorted "Howlin' Mad" Smith: "I knew someone would ask that question. One of the many prerogatives and responsibilities of a commanding officer ... is the assignment and transfer of officers commanding subordinate elements. . . . Unfortunately, circumstances forced me to exercise one of these prerogatives. I did relieve General Ralph Smith...
Company II--Pitchers: Keith Miller and Mataset; catcher: Paligraf; infielders: Rafferty, John White, Stafford, Withrow and Stewart; outfielders: Ogden, Wing, Simone, Mills and Tom Smith. Final Standings W L Browns 7 1 Beavers 5 3 Tigers 5 3 Dodgers 2 6 Cardinals...