Word: blanke
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...front page was blanketed with war. Said one story: "Simultaneously with the vote by Congress at 7 o'clock last night ... to declare the U. S. on a wartime basis, the University has been organized as a military post under command of Major Blank, commandant of the Third University Division." Another: "Registration for the University draft will begin today with the calling of all students and faculty between . . . 18 and 25 whose last names range from...
Died. Poet Edwin Markham, 87, author of The Man with the Hoe; of pneumonia; in Staten Island, N. Y. Sheepherder, farmer, blacksmith, cowboy, schoolteacher and obscure dabbler in verse until he was 47, he Byroned into fame in 1899 when the San Francisco Examiner published his blank-verse masterpiece, inspired by Millet's painting, The Man with the Hoe. That one poem brought him an estimated $250,000 in 33 years...
...torpedo boat put over a launch. Several officers scrambled into it, and it set out toward the Hunan. When it came within hailing distance, one of the officers stood up and shouted: "So sorry. We want examine papers. We want fire across bow. We think we fire blank shell. We fire live shell. So sorry...
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...Read in the Washington Post an article by his biographer, handsome Ernest K. Lindley, quoting point-blank un-Rooseveltian answers to point-blank political questions by a Democratic stalwart (supposedly South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes), who was fed to the gums with the Term III mystery. Mr. Roosevelt was interested to read that he had said flatly: he would not run again unless the Germans overrun England; that Cordell Hull is his choice for successor, is safe, can be elected; that the Vice Presidency lay between Bob Jackson, Paul McNutt, Burt Wheeler; that Jim Farley would...