Word: texans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quips and songs of entertainers. What they really wanted to hear were the plans which U.S. industry has for their future-after they are discharged. Last week big, red-faced Eugene Holman, president of Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), stepped up to the hospital's loudspeaker. In his deep, Texan voice, he told the G.I.s of his company's plans for them...
...Fifth Army, in positions at right angle to the British, held quiet. The Fifth was waiting for its new commander, rasp-voiced Texan Lieut. General Lucian King Truscott Jr., who last week succeeded Lieut. General Mark Clark, now commander of the Allied armies in Italy. But a new commander would not necessarily mean a swift drive to the north. Mark Clark's armies were short of men; the Allied push, and almost all of its European pushing power, was in France...
Last September the Regents' interference with their president became more than Texas' students could stand. President Rainey received a message from Regent Strickland to stop making so many speeches. Although the Regents promptly denied that they had made any such official request, the Daily Texan, campus newspaper, hit right back: "Instances of smalltown 'school boardism' . . . have been too many to overlook the report of a 'shut-up' rule to the president of the institution...
...Cross. Said the citation: "This officer has displayed a high standard of skill and courage in operations against the enemy. He is an excellent leader. .. . ." Browne was the 102nd American R.C.A.F. man to win a British or Canadian decoration. Some others: ¶ Squadron Leader John Harvey Curry, 4g. A Texan (Dallas), he enlisted in 1940, won the D.F.C. and the Order of the British Empire...
...fast talker from way back, Sandefer began his Indian operations in fine style. He made a spur-of-the-moment promise to a group of New Delhi charitarians : to give them a party at Viceroy Viscount Wavell's palace. The Viceroy proved willing. The Texan also called on Mahatma Gandhi, and offered him ten four-year Hardin-Simmons scholarships for Indians. Gandhi promptly took...