Word: ulmer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chose to declare McNulta's hundred years officially up was a sunny Sunday in November. The ceremony, observed at Bloomington's Miller Park Pavilion, proved a great occasion. Civil War songs were played and sung. Uniforms were displayed. Mrs. Emma Hoffman, 96, was there. Her father George Ulmer served in McNulta's regiment, and she remembers going to reunions and hearing her father sing When Johnny Comes Marching Home when he worked alone in the fields. Mrs. Kathryn McNulta, 94, the general's daughter-in-law, flew in from Charleston, S.C. Her grandsons, Paul and Herbert...
...Hoffman's nephew Ulmer Beetzel, now 61, and his wife Doris, 57, have lived for 26 years on the farm his grandfather worked after the Civil War. "It's an industry now, not a life," says Doris. "It's the life of Riley," says Ulmer, correcting her. No livestock, no need for extra help, the ticker tape running constantly at the Anchor co-operative grain elevator, bringing prices from the commodity exchange up in Chicago. But only one of the Beetzel's four children is a farmer...
...Jordan and Charles Kirbo, a Carter adviser, to block his extradition from the Bahamas to the U.S., where Vesco faces trial for fraud. Since the probe began before the Ethics Act was passed, the Justice Department decided that the law did not apply. Last week Ralph E. Ulmer submitted to Federal Judge William B. Bryant his resignation as foreman of the grand jury and accused the Administration of "duplicity." Among other things, he said, "information was withheld from the grand jury" and "a witness was encouraged to be less than candid with the FBI." Whatever the truth of these charges...
...West Pointers have welcomed the EE 304 cadets. Their return, Cadet Mark Wroth complained in a letter last June to the campus paper, "is a blot on the academy, regardless of our personal opinions." Some faculty members agree. The former West Point commandant of cadets, Brigadier General Walter F. Ulmer Jr., was reassigned last year when he opposed any leniency. Says one major: "We've lost credibility with cadets and we've lowered our standards...
Jefferson Ulmer West Point...