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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appeals to class spirit, etc, are of avail, one last appeal can be made attendance as a reward to the anonymity author of those official "notices" show the dance. It is rumored that after the publicity given him in Tuesday's notice Lt. Lindsay has been searching for the unknown author with his loaded DO's in hand...

Author: By Larry Hyde, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 6/8/1945 | See Source »

While the three new Cabinet members were generally unknown, they had no known disqualifications. Harry Truman, who does not believe in one-man government, told them that they would have unquestioned authority in their fields. Clint Anderson, for instance, also becomes War Food Administrator and will thus be the nation's absolute food czar in fact as well as in name. Washington dopesters thought it only a matter of time until WLB, NLRB and the National Mediation Board would be put under the new Secretary of Labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shake-Up! | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...dapper socialite New York Congressman, made a straight-faced proposal that U.S. film actors be "lend-leased" to Europe to re-educate the enemy: "Overnight they would be able to do more good in inspiring confidence in the Nazi and Fascist-trained youth of Europe than all of the unknown professional educators we are now contemplating sending abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: In Hitler's Shadow | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

Hurst solicited funds for the "Widow of the Unknown Soldier," soon collected (and returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 21, 1945 | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

...arbitrator Lamont, who acted as auxiliary umpire after Spencer had been spirited away by unknown ragamuffins, objected at first to the CRIMSON's tactics, but information reaching him from his superior by carrier pigeon indicated that the base-line tackling was the coming thing in the Great American Game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Poonsters BOTTLED IN BOND AS CRIME PLUCKS 23 TO 2 PLUM | 5/15/1945 | See Source »

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