Word: vin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stick-work department for the Crimson was Vin Leahy with two doubles. Leahy also carried three runs over the plate personally. Runner-up in the hit column was Jim Apthorp who got credit for two singles...
Actually, handsome young David Astor will not take over until war's end. The Garvin-Astor split was not over him but over Winston Churchill, whom Garvin supports and the Astors don't like. Gar-vin's two "serious offenses" were outlined to him in a letter from Observer Director Sir Edward Grigg, lately resigned Joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for War. Said Grigg (no relation to new War Secretary Sir Percy James Grigg), Garvin had sinned: 1) in urging Churchill to keep his post as Defense Minister; 2) in saying that Beaverbrook should stay...
Steel-helmeted, fortified with tommy guns and flasks of vin ordinaire, landing parties took over the village in less than half an hour. Eleven brass-buttoned, picture-postcard gendarmes shrugged their shoulders, helped round up their superior officers. Most administrative officers were told to stay at their posts, but suave Parisian Baron Gilbert de Bournat, Administrator, was called to account before the flotilla's commandant, Vice Admiral Emile Henri Muselier, Commander of the Free French naval forces...
Last week in Sapulpa, Okla. a judge instructed the Sinclair and Minnehoma oil companies to pay to the heirs of Lete Kol-vin $7,413,286 in cash, and to surrender the 160 acres of Oklahoma land, a gasoline plant, and 15 producing wells. Half of Lete's fortune went to her 65-year-old half sister. The other half went to Willie and Floyd Mayweather, nephews of Lete's husband...