Word: atherton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gertrude Atherton, taffy-haired, well-rouged, rejuvenated novelist (The Black Oxen, The House of Lee), celebrated her 87th birthday by announcing the completion of her 41st book, Golden Gate Land, a 100,000-word history of her native northern California. She also delivered some birthday thoughts, called the Germans a "nation of fools," declared they should be shown "no mercy." Of the Japanese, she remarked: "Barbarians-they don't belong on this planet...
Commander Atherton's bill calls for mustering-out pay, unemployment compensation for idle veterans, education allowances for returning servicemen, loans for home building...
Within the week, the American Legion's hard-driving National Commander Warren H. Atherton had presented Congress with a new "omnibus" veterans' bill, appeared twice before Congressional committees, hired a public-relations firm to publicize his bill, had a 45-minute chat with Franklin Roosevelt at the White House...
...Spent 45 minutes swapping ideas on veterans' legislation with the American Legion's Commander Warren Atherton...
...Warren Atherton, our American Legion National Commander, was speaking for honest-to-God fighting men . . . when he made his recent statement. . . . The men returning from this war are going to be American Legion members, pulling as one, to rebuild homes, obtain jobs and be fairly represented in official offices. Your "just deserts" of dead Japs and Nazis is just so much hooey, and won't get you nor any other man anything after the flag-waving is over...