Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wealthy Administration-haters in Palm Beach spent an impressive amount of time & money reminding Florida voters that Senator Pepper is a typical, nationally known personification of New Dealism. New Dealer Pepper retorted by snuggling even closer to the President, charging his enemies with "hoping that by driving a dagger through my heart, it might reach a little ways into President Roosevelt." The chief Pepper rival, Jacksonville's Judge J. Ollie Edmunds, said boldly: "I am willing to stand up and be counted as a Southern Democrat." When he and others had stood up and been counted, New Dealer Pepper...
...Dieppe - Allied testing ground in 1942 when Commandos landed on good beaches but could not get their men and tanks past overpowering German defense. It has a 1,700-yd. beach, blocked by a formidable barrier of cliff...
When Jap planes bombed Humboldt Bay last week, a three-star admiral and a two-star general were caught offshore in a small powerboat. The admiral bawled an order to get away from the beach; the general shouted to get back to shore...
...quickly captured the three Hollandia airfields. Except for scattered sniping, the only Jap opposition was an ineffectual 14-plane torpedo attack on a U.S. destroyer in Hollandia Bay and a single plane bombing of the Jap supply dump, which exploded like a string of firecrackers down two miles of beach...
Married. Gloria Baker Topping, 24, café-society glamor girl of 1937, Bromo-Seltzer heiress ($10.000.000); and Brigadier General Edward Harrison Alexander, 42, commander of the Caribbean wing of the Air Transport Command; she for the second time, he for the first; at Mor rison Field, West Palm Beach. Her marriage to Henry J. Topping Jr., tin-plate heir ($9,000,000), who is now a naval lieutenant overseas, ended in divorce last year...