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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pacific islands. War Department estimates that up to 70% of the next of kin will ask for the return of remains are based largely on experience after World War I. There had been opposition to the move then, as when Theodore Roosevelt said of his son Quentin, "Where the tree falls, let it lie." There was opposition also to the new and greater march of the dead, both from servicemen (who believed that $200 million could be better spent to aid widows and orphans) and from widows and bereaved parents...
Along Rio's tree-fringed dockside, some 5,000 Brazilian Communists last week patiently waited for two hours in the hot winter sun to see the notable newcomer walk down the gangplank. They did not consider Jacob Surits, the new Russian ambassador and in-&-out Soviet big shot, as great as their own "cavalier of hope," Luis Carlos Prestes. But as the first Russian ambassador to Brazil in 29 years, he deserved the best welcome Communism could give...
Unlike Nephew Leo, Uncle Philibert laughed at police traps, led the cops Mack Sennett chases. Sometimes he found temporary refuge in a tree, sometimes in Belgium, sometimes in the constitutional immunity of the Chamber of Deputies. But he died (1941) in Riom prison...
...saloon, but young Gene finally inherited the Mexican hairless, which was named Maximilian. From another source he acquired a parrot named Molly, which was fond of mulberries and, much to the consternation of a neighbor's chickens, liked to hang upside down from the branches of a mulberry tree. Molly had been trained by a lady known locally as French Marguerite. Her habits "bewildered the virtuous and provincial hens and caused them to molt before their season...
Besides the necessity of finding additional office and ward space in Stillman Infirmary itself, Dr. Bock predicted that the present overcrowding in Hygiene Building offices would soon have to be assimilated into the rear part of the Big Tree Pool building next door...