Word: walla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Montana, the Columbine carried Ike to Walla Walla, where searchlights glared at the President as he stepped down from the plane onto politically apathetic soil. Since Washington elects neither governor nor Senator this year, the state's interest, such as it is, centers on the seven House contests: Democrats are given a fighting chance to pick up one of the six Republican seats...
Bread & Butter Note. Near Walla Walla, Wash., two prisoners escaped from the county jail's paddy wagon, left a note for Jail Superintendent James Hammond: "Dear Jim, Sorry to eat and run, but we have to catch a train...
...William C. Kvaraceus, includes both a check list for rating delinquency conditions and a handy set of multiple choice questions for pupils to be surveyed. (Sample: the secret of success is 1) luck, 2) hard work, 3) ability, 4) money.) ¶ President Chester C. Maxey of Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash, was cheered by the results of an unusual test for academic efficiency: a full-scale management audit of his college by the American Institute of Management. For five months, A.I.M.'s experts worked on their "public service" inspection. Their tests concluded, they found that Whitman...
Wainwright's formal qualifications for leadership were good but not extraordinary. Born at Fort Walla Walla, Wash., where his father was serving, he went to West Point and built himself an orthodox career in the cavalry. He served with the ist Cavalry, fought the Moros in the Philippines, had a succession of combat staff jobs in France in World War I, and went through the usual round of peacetime assignments. In 1940, as a temporary major general, he was sent to command the Philippine division. On Pearl Harbor Day, Wainwright was senior field commander under Douglas MacArthur...
...Walla Walla, Wash...