Word: wallgren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days after the Fifth U. S. Marines landed at St. Nazaire. France on July 2, 1917, Buck Private Abian Anders Wallgren was arrested for trying to smuggle two bottles of cognac into camp. It was the first vagary of a mildly undisciplined disposition which ultimately got Private Wallgren seven court-martials, never for anything more serious than "butting an officer in the stomach to get into quarters...
Having been a newspaper cartoonist in Philadelphia and Washington, "Wally" Wallgren was appointed Regimental Sign Painter; and for nearly nine months, punctuated by spells in the hoosegow, he ranged the Western Front painting "Latrine" and "Officers Only" signs. Meantime, Guy T. Viskniskki, looking for a cartoonist for his projected A. E. F. paper, The Stars and Stripes, heard about Wally, decided he wanted...
...gleefully made much of that State's strife-torn Democratic organization. Last week the G. O. P. suddenly found that it had a full-sized family ruckus of its own in the 2nd Congressional District. There a Methodist preacher named Payson Peterson was running against Democratic Representative Conrad Wallgren, one-time national amateur billiard champion...
...Civilian Conservation Corps, the army of jobless forestry workers, last week commenced publishing its own weekly, Happy Days ("The Newspaper with a Smile"). Edited from Washington by Melvin Ryder, Vol. I No. 1 was frankly imitative of the A. E. F.'s Stars & Stripes. Cartoonist Abian Anders ("Wally") Wallgren of Stars & Stripes supplied humorous sketches of C. C. C. camp life. A Cyrus Leroy Baldridge drawing ("Peeling Spuds") was reprinted from Stars & Stripes. Pages of photographs showed enlistment lines, chow lines, tent lines, work lines. For the benefit of those who did not know what they swore...
...Victoria, British Columbia, a furious oath battle raged all week between the Provincial Minister of Public Works. Hon. Rolf Wallgren Bruhn (born Swedish, naturalized British) and the Minister of Education, Hon. Joshua Hinchliffe (born British...