Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last on the list is the World Student Service Fund whose work is probably unknown to most College students. The WSSF is an international student relief organization. It grants scholarships to students abroad and to foreign students here. It also provides books, writing materials, and teachers for people detained in prison camps, and concentration camps all over the world...
...That children, women, men, fathers, mothers should be treated as a wretched herd, that members of the same family should be separated from one another and embarked for unknown destinations, was a sad spectacle reserved for our times...
...unknown was the vote of the old Farmer-Labor Party. Up for the Senate nomination was a woman who personified the party's problem: charming Norma Ward Lundeen, the 46-year-old widow of British-hating, German-loving Senator Ernest Lundeen, who was killed in a 1940 airplane crash. Mrs. Lundeen, firm of jaw and of conviction, is campaigning to vindicate her husband's bitter-end isolationism, "to travel under his banner." People who had already looked under Lundeen's banner had found there many smelly characters like George Sylvester Viereck, old Lundeen friend now serving...
...Defense Commissar and Secretary of the Communist Party, Stalin is shouldered with domestic and international responsibilities which grow with each German step into Russia. Last week Stalin sought someone to share his burdens. As First Deputy Defense Commissar he chose a man who, until two years ago, was an unknown quantity to a non-Russian world: General Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov...
Somewhere between Miami and India last week was a mystery man of U.S. aviation; a man who has concocted one big international aviation deal after another, yet is almost unknown to U.S. citizens. His name: William Douglas Pawley. His business; dabbling in anything that flies -usually at a profit...