Word: witt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FRANCISCO--Lt. Gen. John L. De Witt today announced the Oregon State-Duke University Rose Bowl game and the Shrine East-West charity game, both scheduled for New Year's Day, have been canelled for military reasons...
Managing editor: beefy, stogie-smoking, 47-year-old George ("Ash") De Witt, fired three weeks ago (the second time in five years) from the managing editorship of the Washington Times-Herald. His qualifications: 19 years' Chicago experience with Hearst's now-defunct Chicago Herald & Examiner; a plugging talent for local news; five years' experience under Colonel McCormick's temperamental cousin Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson, publisher of the Times-Herald...
...Sentenced to ten months in jail were two Presbyterian missionaries in Korea, Dr. De Witt S. Lowe and the Rev. E. Otto DeCamp. The charge: removing Shinto god shrines from the homes of their servants...
Touched off by Herbert Witt's speech last night, the Student Union has planned a complete peace campaigns to build up anti-war sentiment in anticipation of Roosevelt's May 27 speech...
Following Witt's speech, the H. S. U. will outline a new peace campaign and will elect a special executive committee to conduct it. According to Rufus W. Mathewson, Jr. '41, member of the executive committee, the H. S. U. believes that if non-interventionists put on an immediate drive against any further steps towards war, President Roosevelt can be prevented from making the belligerent speech which is expected next week...