Word: tweed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorce Revealed. Of Navy Chief Radioman George Ray Tweed, 42, "The Ghost of Guam"; and Mary Frances Tweed, 27, mother of two; on Aug. 8, six years after their marriage (his first, her second), three weeks after he came home on furlough after 31 months of hide& -seek with Guam's Jap occupation forces, (TIME, Aug. 21); in San Diego, Calif. One of the allegations: she insulted the wives of other servicemen...
Awed and thankful, Tweed gazed at the sight, wondered where the Navy had got so many ships and rushed down to the beach under the bombardment to flash his glass and wag his flags...
...fortnight ago a calm, unruffled Tweed, his throat a little scratchy from so much unaccustomed talking, was reunited with his family in California. He had collected back pay amounting to $6,027 and an admiral out in the Pacific had made him a chief on the spot...
Nevertheless Tweed was mightily pleased to learn later that he had passed the examination which he had taken before the Japs came to Guam. It was a reward, after 20 years in the Navy...
Killed in Action. Captain George C. Grey, 26, Liberal, youngest member of Parliament. Elected to the House of Commons at 23 for Berwick-on-Tweed, he followed the footsteps of his late relative, Viscount Grey of Fallodon, who represented the same borough at the same...