Word: alva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have some 500 buildings, a 17-care assembly & repair shop, a 6,300-ft. seawall, 24 miles of roads a 39-mile railroad, swimming pool, clubroombs, hospitals, barracks, and cabanas along the Gulf shore. It will also have a veteran Navy man for commandant: genial, blue-eyed, imperturbable Captain Alva D. Bernhard, until recently in command of the Aircraft Scouting Force. A third larger than Pensacola, the 4.658-acre air station is not one base but four-three of them fully equipped flying fields within a 15-mile radius of the main station...
...exclusive, wound up as a field day for CBS and Mutual, which persistently got the jump on Schechter and his crew. He rates as the bluntest broadcast he ever heard James Roosevelt's defense of his business activities in reply to an attack by Alva Johnston. Excerpt from the Roosevelt script: "I have a feeling that being the President's son, some people would be calling me a crook no matter what business I had entered, providing I'd been successful." Admitting that radio is still a bit callow, Schechter is certain its newscasting is reasonably mature...
...Indian Owner Alva Bradley, Bob Feller is an excellent investment. On days when Feller is scheduled to pitch, ballpark attendance swells 50% to 200%. Last week, when Robert William Andrew Feller signed his contract for the coming season, Owner Bradley grinned from ear to ear. "You can safely say," he told newshawks, "that Feller's salary is the highest that has ever been paid a pitcher." Sportswriters, well aware that Lefty Grove's 1931 salary of $27,500 was baseball's all-time pitching high, promptly set Feller's salary...
Hague: "We're giving the people . . . real government, conscientious government." (Pointing to Tobey and addressing Senator Alva Adams): "What's he frothing at the mouth about...
...tell what he knew about the partridge dances in neighboring Hudson County, where Democratic Committee Vice Chairman Frank Hague is boss of the bush. The Committee's valiant Republican Senator Charles W. Tobey watched and listened, with blunderbuss at the ready. Beside him sat his colleague, Senator Alva Adams, little, solid and Democratic, who would rather be off hunting in Republican-controlled South Jersey counties...