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When Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels was hard pressed for clerical workers just before the U.S. entered World War I, he gave his legal advisers a knowing look: forthwith they decided that a yeoman need not be male. This led to 11,275 yeomanettes in the U.S., France...
Lesson. In Seattle, Al Collins took his wife to a golf course, took his stance to show her the correct form for driving from a tee, forthwith shot a hole...
...usual criminal court form for personal summons "Franklin D. Roosevelt, he being President of the United States," was asked "to appear forthwith before the Superior Court for the said County of Middlesex, holden at Cambridge . . . to give such evidence as he knows relative to an indictment there pending against Edward Holten James...
...Massachusetts, in Virginia, But we were England's, still colonials, Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed. Something we were withholding made us weak Until we found it was ourselves We were withholding from our land of living, And forthwith found salvation in surrender. Such as we were we gave ourselves outright...
...Downing St., at the War Office, at the U.S. Embassy abruptly appeared Harry Hopkins, the man who more than any other acts and speaks for President Roosevelt, and General George Catlett Marshall, the U.S. Army's Chief of Staff. In the U.S. and Britain, anxious millions forthwith believed what they wanted to be told: that their forces were about to take the offensive and open a second front in Europe...