Word: w
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...W. BLAKELY...
...House committee bill added no men to the authorized Army strength the Administration had asked for. The increment of manpower was for the Air Force, the Navy and the Marines. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Capitol, the Senate Armed Services Committee listened sympathetically as Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington, backed by General Carl Spaatz, said once again that anything less than 70 groups would be inadequate. The Senators indicated that they would make their own decision this week, and that it would be for 70 groups...
Milwaukee also elected a new mayor last week: slim, young (35) Frank Zeidler, a Socialist. He will be the town's third Socialist mayor in 38 years and the second Zeidler in eight. In 1940, his late brother Carl, a conservative nonpartisan, unseated dour Daniel W. Hoan, who had been Milwaukee's Socialist mayor for 24 years. Frank Zeidler's victory did not mean that old-line Socialists had taken over the town again. His party failed to win any other city office...
College NSA delegates, in order of finish: Robert C. Fisher '51, Frederic D. Houghtoling '50, Robert L. Fischelis '50, Frederick Deane, Jr. '18, and W. Jarvis Moody...
...Horace W. Frost, owner of the dwelling, summoned police after his maid was awakened by unusual noises outside the house. He went downstairs to the dining room, where he said Dresser was trying to enter through a window...