Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...from discouraged in his first venture into politics, Sendak plans to try again in a few years for the same post. He attributes his loss only to the fact that he was missing from the scene of the political fray during the last few weeks of the campaign. The election took place on May 7; Ted had divisionals...
...SIDEWALKS OF LONDON:--Chiefly notable for the performance of the pre-GWTW Vivien Leigh. Added attractions: views of pre-war London, lead performance by a post-prime Laughton, and a distinctly pre- (or post) Hayes office clinch involving Miss Leigh and "Strangler Rex" Harrison. Highly recommended for all Leigh fans,--and their name is legion...
...Congressman Ham Fish of New York suggested that the Germans might post $100,000 for Franklin Roosevelt delivered in Berlin...
...them.) Furiously pursuing German airmen raked and bombarded the launches loading on Namsos' concatenated waterfront. They dumped rack after rack of bombs at transports and warships steaming away from shore. How many boatloads sank in the inferno the Nazis poured on them may not be known until the post-war opening of archives. At Gallipoli the British suffered 50,000 casualties out of 120,000 troops landed. The N. W. E. F. affair, a pint-sized Gallipoli, will probably lag far behind that proportion of losses. The rating of those who ordered it, and then countermanded it, will...
...free-lanced against the Poles in 1919-20 under General Höfer, then rejoined Germany's post-Versailles army of 100,000. In 1922 he was called to the Reichswehr Ministry in Berlin, got his majority in 1925, his first regimental command in 1928. Three years later he was Chief of Staff of the First Division, in 1932, a full colonel. Then he went to Prague for three years as military attache for Hungary, Czecho-Slovakia, Rumania. Germany did not have left many competent officers of his generation and he was soon commissioned a major general, Chief...