Word: warden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army decided that there was no longer any point in 24-hour watches for amateur air spotters. The Office of Civilian Defense had been without a boss since James M. Landis went off to boss U.S. economics in the Middle East (TIME Aug. 16). Many an air-raid warden was beginning to lose that first fine passion for his helmet and whistle. But OCD, with a $4 million budget and 850 employes, urged every man to keep on his toes. There might still be need, said OCD, for all the equipment it had delivered or requisitioned...
...Schwerin a German railwayman named Ulrich Middelborg was executed for taking food from a freight car. At Hamburg an air-raid warden went to the gallows for taking a few yards of blackout cloth from a bombed house. At Hindenburg, in Upper Silesia, Bank Manager Georg Miethe was put to death for conversation which "failed to set an example of loyalty for his employes...
About 10 o'clock Robert Haines, Deputy Chief Warden, dismissed his men after the University's first realistic air raid test. Once again dazzled squirrels returned to their nests in the trees and the crinkily brown leaves settled quietly in the Yard...
Robert Haines, Deputy Air Raid Warden, called last night's activities most successful. "From control centers the services showed that they were extremely well constructed," he said. "The wardens were alert, on the job, and turned in their reports promptly. The navy unit located in the Yard was present with its services ready for the sudden emergency. On the whole it shows the ARP personnel at Harvard is well organized to meet an air raid...
...showed signs of blasting Georgia's prison system out of its antiquated, sadistic, scandal-ridden past. Georgia's Governor Ellis Arnall, trying hard to erase the black marks of the Talmadge regime, turned the Cartersville investigation into a study of all State prisons. First step: suspension of Warden Clay and Guard Bryant. Second: a tour by legislative leaders, to learn what other State prison systems had been up to since Oglethorpe first brought his oppressed debtors to the New World...