Word: wainwrights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...FAMILY AS WELL AS 15,000 OTHER DUTCH OFFICIALS IN THE FACE OF CERTAIN JAPANESE INVASION REMAINED AT THEIR POSTS, WERE TAKEN PRISONERS BY THE JAPANESE AND SUFFERED ALL CRUELTIES AND INDIGNITIES OF JAPANESE INTERNMENT. GOVERNOR GENERAL STARKENBORGH HIMSELF SHARED CAPTIVITY AND HUMILIATION IN SAME CAMP WITH GENERAL WAINWRIGHT...
Twenty million Mexicans had a new President. The 2,500 Mexican big shots and distinguished foreign guests inside the auditorium-General Jonathan Wainwright and U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snyder among others-applauded. Notably absent: ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas, symbol of the revolutionary left...
Into Russia as magazine correspondents flew the Elliott Roosevelts, who got a royal* welcome in Moscow from the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS). Out of Mombasa, British East Africa, bound for New York, steamed a merchant ship captained by Jonathan M. Wainwright V, the General's son, whose charges included an ostrich, a wildcat, a ringtailed monkey, four pythons and six hyenas. Across the U.S. on a lecture tour streaked Randolph Churchill, who was having hair-raising luck. While he was doing 50 on an Indiana highway a wheel flew...
Count 2, filed last, came after coroner Warren Wainwright analyzed the collective breaths of the three suspects, and declared that the evidence clearly indicated vodka. "We only had one glass apiece," said Witherspoon P. Pugh, Yale '50, in a guilty plea for clemency...
...last week, after 25 years of experiment, the Dominion Experimental Farm had gone far toward establishing the fact that Canadian cattle could be successfully buffaloed. Browsing in a special enclosure in the Wainwright Buffalo Park were 75 precious, sturdy calves born this spring. They were true cattalo, not hybrids but a distinctive breed. The experts were finally sure that they had taken the cattalo out of the mule's biological dead...