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...little towns now had lost one of their boys; many of them had a service flag with a gold star hanging in a parlor window along one of their shade-dappled streets. To little, ink-smelling newspaper offices went a mother or a father, holding stiffly the telegram from Washington and the picture that had stood on the mantel...
...served four years in the Navy. After Pearl Harbor he enlisted again. He sold his car, gave up his plans to build a home of his own this autumn. His letters arrived home regularly until the end of March. Then came the dreaded long silence, then the brief Navy telegram: missing in action...
...Navy telegram arrived in April: wounded in action. Mr. Geisman is a little sheepish about the way he reacted: he took a streetcar to the Army transport docks, tried to get to the Philippines him self. Says he: "They were nice to me, but they explained that it was doubtful that any boats would be going to Bataan...
...McNear pulled his most ruggedly individualistic boner. As defense traffic got snarled on his strike-bound railroad (over 150 cars were tied up at one time), he waited three days to answer President Roosevelt's personal appeal for a settlement, then sent a bitterly phrased 5,000-word telegram to the White House-collect. Two days later the Government collared T.P. & W., ousted McNear, put in as Federal Manager John Walker Barriger III, associate ODT director...
...nigssee near Salzburg, at Castle Fuschl, which belongs to German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's papa. It was followed by the usual windy notices from their press-agents and the usual cyclone of rumors from their stooges. Mussolini even sent Hitler the tried & tested telegram: "The meeting will be an unforgettable memory...