Word: trail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reported first to his Commander-in-Chief, Franklin Roosevelt, and to the chiefs of the U. S. fighting forces. Colonels Stimson and Knox. By the time he had shuttled back & forth between Manhattan and Washington several times and hidden out to write a radio speech, Colonel Donovan's trail was cold. But when finally his story did leak out, as stories always do in Washington, it was still hot. For Wild Bill Donovan was one man in the U. S. who was satisfied he knew how the war was being fought and what the U. S. ought...
...Transocean News Service, and No. 1 Nazi propagandist for the U. S. and Latin America. After a five-month study of his activities by FBI, a Federal grand jury in Washington, D. C. indicted him and his chief aide, Günther Tonn. (The Dies Committee picked up his trail seven months...
...devious trail led to the Manhattan publishing house of Howell, Soskin & Co., whom Zapp "procured" to publish the German White Paper under its imprint. Thence, the charges continued, the trail led to Ralph Beaver Strassburger, rich, 58-year-old publisher of the prosperous Norristown (Pa.) Times Herald, who last summer fought hard to get the Republican nomination for Ham Fish. According to the Federal indictment, Zapp "procured" Strassburger to finance and distribute free more than 60,000 copies of the White Paper, while concealing the fact that he had anything to do with the deal...
Then there was the ridiculous memory of Franklin Roosevelt. One hundred and twenty-four Negro sharecropper families lived at Percy's Trail Lake plantation. He shared 50-50 with them "as my grandfather and father had done." One of Dr. Odum's boys at the University of North Carolina had written a thesis on the plantation-A Social-Economic Analysis of a Mississippi Delta Plantation-and young Jonathan Daniels had dashed over to Trail Lake when he was discovering the South. Despite individual abuses, Planter Percy believes that "sharecropping is one of the best systems ever devised...
Conditions for the race were excellent, since most of the Harvard racers had well tramped out the course on the preceeding day, and there was ample snow on the trail. Chief of course for the race was, Coach Bill Halsey, and Woody Strandberg and Henry Bigelow assisted as timing and starting officials...