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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Guard Association. Reason: the Guard fears the Army would scrap it as superfluous and no longer practical (except possibly as state militias set up for police and disaster work). Stoutly on record as favoring universal military training, the politically potent Association will nevertheless fight any attempt to wash out their organization. Major General Ellard A. Walsh, Association president, said: "The chances of the Regular Army to impose its ideas of a military establishment on the nation are probably slim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Dangerous Terrain | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...Vancouver, Wash., a motorist smashed into one Clarence Williams, broke his leg, pulled up a few feet ahead, ran back, lifted Williams' wallet, drove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 13, 1944 | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

Cornucopia. In Yakima. Wash., Messrs. Lemon and Cherry arranged to sell the Plum Apartments on West Chestnut Street to an apple grower from Cherry Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 6, 1944 | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

John Bricker, who had not seen Tom Dewey for ten weeks, crossed the Cascade Mountains on a 94-speech, 9,250-mile tour, and headed south. He soothed Tacoma, Wash. Republicans who had been miffed because Dewey had bypassed their town. After Bricker spoke, the county chairman, 260-lb. Dr. Hinton D. Jonez, beamed: "The patient's wounds have been sewed and the sheets pulled up. The Republicans of this county are resting easily." Bricker gobbled a Delicious Yakima apple, steered a Puget Sound ferry, pitched the opening ball in Wenatchee for a major-league barnstormers' game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Campaign West of the Pecos | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

...bounced over the early U.S. roads with his Jersey wagon loaded with good books. He carried a quill pen stuck in his hat, an inkhorn in his lapel, and his fiddle on the wagon seat beside him. "He stopped now and then at a pond or a stream to wash his shirt and take a bath, suspending his linen to dry on the frame of the wagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Portrait of America (1800-40) | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

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