Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Youngest of Army branches is the armored force. Until last summer the Army dozed along with a single, experimental mechanized brigade, and kept this little upstart haltered in the cavalry. What additional tanks and armored vehicles the Army possessed were scattered among older services. It took Hitler's Panzer divisions to wake up the U. S. Army. The lone Seventh Brigade suddenly grew (on paper) into a full-fledged armored force. Tank-minded pioneers were given command, plus a free hand to concentrate practically all of the Army's mechanized equipment in two divisions...
...children themselves none of this was as important as the prospect of a blacked-out Christmas. They planned to trim the bare steel girders of the big underground shelters and to set up Christmas trees, to have carols and mince pie. But the youngest moppets were afraid that London's anti-aircraft crews might shoot at Santa Claus...
...Stately, handsome John A. Hastings, promotive vanguard of the great bonanza. A onetime New York State Senator (at 22, the youngest in the Legislature's history), an oldtime crony of James J. Walker, unsuccessful candidate (although Father Coughlin backed him) for U. S. Representative in 1936, Hastings reportedly sought concessions for West Coast fishing, railroads, a trans-Isthmus pipeline. Mexican politicos thought him a U. S. Senator...
Stratton Christensen '40 is now a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives. Elected out of a field of four candidates, Christensen is, at 22, the youngest member of the House. While here he concentrated in Government and lived in Leverett House...
...Father Conkling accepts, Chicago will have its youngest (45) bishop ever. Tall, vigorous, blue-eyed, prematurely white, a graduate of Williams and Oxford, he served in the Navy during World War I, has been at big (1,419 communicants), fashionable St. Luke's since 1924. There he has introduced, but not publicized, two services which most Episcopalians do not even know exist, though provision was made for them in the last prayer-book revision of 1928. These are Holy Unction (anointment of the sick with olive oil specially blessed by a bishop), and a Laying on of Hands...