Word: 27th
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, now in its 27th year of activity, has established itself as an important force in the affairs of the community of Cambridge. Growing rapidly since its founding in 1913, when 191 cases were handled, the Bureau now takes charge of an average of 750 cases yearly...
...other vessels were grounded. When the storm was over, the casualties-sailors, hunters, city dwellers -totaled 159. Four ships were sunk, over 1,000,000 turkeys were frozen, boosting the price on Thanksgiving eve. It was the Great Lakes' worst storm since 1913, and it came on the 27th anniversary of that bigblow...
Redheaded Margie ("Poor Man's Garbo") Hart is a stripteaser who plays Manhattan's theatres and the Midwest burlesque houses. This week she gave 62-year-old Major General William N. Haskell, commander of the 27th Division, New York National Guard, a shock. Sent to the 27th were 50 autographed copies of Margie's "most vivacious" photograph, with the promise of 4,550 more as soon as prints were ready. Margie sent her mementos out of practically pure patriotism. She wanted them distributed among the 27th Division, which will soon go into training far from the Manhattan...
Last week 1,500 bankers, exporters, importers, shippers, diplomats took over San Francisco's Palace Hotel for the 27th National Foreign Trade Convention, gloomiest in many years. Convention managers spent hours on the telephone, trying to round up enough delegates with white ties and tails to fill out the head table. Palace Hotel officials could not remember a convention that had done so little drinking. For three evenings the bar of the Pied Piper Room was lined with fresh glasses, iced and ready for the Martinis for which the bar is famous. The ice in the glasses turned...
...only National Guard officer who kept a top U. S. Army command during World War I was Major General John Francis O'Ryan, whose 27th (Rainbow) Division helped to crack the Hindenburg Line. Mustached, militant John O'Ryan brought home a rank of medals, an avowed love of peace and a deep conviction that war is better than some kinds of peace. Now 65 and retired to his law practice in Manhattan, he recently collected money to buy munitions for Finland, begged the U. S. to declare war on Hitler, denounced peace-at-any-price...