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...state preparing to fight Mitchell's code in the courts,* even Newburghers were beginning to wonder whether the plan was necessary after all. In the first muster of male reliefers last week, only one man (of the three who showed up) was eligible to work his 40-hour stint for the city. But whether or not his code is needed, and whether or not he makes it stick, Joe Mitchell and Newburgh have already made a lasting impression on the welfare state...
...Plainly, Wodehouse said nothing to support the Allied picture of the Nazis as brutes and sadists. During his stay in jail, Wodehouse reported, he had written a novel, read the complete works of William Shakespeare. "Square meals were rather noticeably lacking in squareness," he commented, and he did a stint of "clearing out latrines with one hand and peeling potatoes with the other." But after "spavined old dodderers" like himself were excused from prison chores, Wodehouse conceded that he "lived the life of Riley...
...letters cover his youth as a journeyman printer in New Orleans with his brother Jeff, his tour of duty in Washington as clerk in the Treasury and the Indian Bureau of the Interior Department and his stint as a volunteer male nurse in the gruesome military hospitals of the Civil War. Leaving his clerk's desk in the afternoon, "Loving Old Walt" (as he liked to sign himself) checked in at one of the huge whitewashed dressing stations near the capital. It is easy to raise a coarse snigger at the ambiguity of Whitman's motives for playing...
...Arthur MacArthur, served as last military governor of the islands.) The lieutenant spent a year engineering sea walls, wharves and roads, came back briefly in 1923 and then in 1928 as a brigadier general commanding all U.S. troops in the Philippines. In 1935 MacArthur finished up a five-year stint as the youngest U.S. Army chief of staff. His next job: Philippines military adviser, with the rank of field marshal in the Philippine army. Foreseeing the coming world conflict, MacArthur raced to build up the Philippine army with a singlemindedness that earned him the mocking title "Napoleon of Luzon" from...
...Murdock quit school in the tenth grade to go to work, was paying his own way even before that. Says he: "I can remember mowing lawns when I was so small I couldn't get both hands up to the lawn-mower handle." After a World War II stint in the Air Force, he drifted into Phoenix with a young wife, a trailer, and a $12,000 stake he had earned running a short-order restaurant in Detroit...