Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rumpled, bulky, droop-mustached man stood beside the white dazzle of the Unknown Soldier's marble tomb in Arlington Cemetery. He too had been a soldier-Sergeant Alvin C. York, the Tennessee mountaineer who, 23 years ago, singlehanded, disabled a German machine-gun battery and with seven privates killed or captured 152 of its defenders. He spoke: "Liberty is not merely something the veterans inherited. Liberty is something they fought to keep...
...power of the Duce. Before Starace, many an old-time Fascist had been relegated to oblivion or death: Hero Italo Balbo to the Governor Generalship of Libya and then to mysterious death in his airplane; Soldiers Pietro Badoglio and Rodolfo Graziani to retirement; Loudmouthpiece Roberto Farinacci to an unknown fate in Albania. Each of these men possessed great influence over some segment of the Italian people, from royalty to hoi polloi. With the purging of Starace, Benito Mussolini had cut himself even more adrift from connection with the 43,500,000 Italian people...
This time unknown planes droned for two dark hours above the city, which kept up anti-aircraft fire, before anything dropped. Then four bombs fell, killing 34, injuring 120, leaving 500 homeless. This week Dublin identified bomb fragments as German, protested to Berlin, which had acknowledged bombings of Eire. Dublin police suspected, as before, that Nazi planes had been lost over Eire, that the bombing had been a murderous form of jettison...
...166th anniversary of U.S. history's most famous ride. But it was not till the following week that piccolos squealed Yankee Doodle over the Berlin short-wave and a sound-effects man clopped coconut shells in simulation of furious galloping. Then, under the name of Paul Revere, "an unknown American of Pilgrim ancestry" took to the air and began in English to gabble for Goebbels...
Hundreds of trembling Freshmen trouped to Sophomore Dean Sargent Kennedy's office in University 4 Saturday afternoon in response to a hoax post card sent out by person or persons unknown. The card, sent to over 1000 Yardlings threatened that "failure to observe this notice will not be excused," and was signed by Dean Kennedy, as "Dean of Freshmen...