Word: ber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other Hearst editor ever dared do), chopped up Pegler's copy at will, hired Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day" column, set wife Anna to writing a corny, folksy "homemaker's" column. P-I circulation spurted; so did advertising. The Boettigers became Cham ber of Commerce favorites, because they helped bring big federal construction projects to Seattle. Their New Deal editorials won them labor's friendship ; their obvious love for the Pacific Northwest won almost everybody else. The hardest-bitten skeptics came to agree that ex-Chicago Trib-uneman Boettiger put out a good paper...
...broadcaster of the German High Command's daily communiqués (which fell hours behind schedule "owing to communications difficulties"). Dr. Karl Scharping, propaganda pet of Goebbels, asserted from Hamburg: "Germany ... is a force which grows. . . ." When the Hamburg radio announced the fall of the city, Deutschland über Alles filled...
Franklin Roosevelt liked the speech. He knew it would strengthen his hand at Yalta (he took 50 copies along). At Yalta he also made Arthur Vandenberg a mem ber of the U.S. delegation to San Francisco...
Economists sang: one evening H. E. Brooks, a good pianist who is also a mem ber of the British delegation, sat down in the lounge and rippled out The Blue Danube, favorite tune of Lord & Lady Keynes (the former ballet dancer Lydia Lopokova). The peer and the peeress sang the words for the delegates near them.' Money vanished: while delegates up stairs in the Mt. Washington Hotel tried to conjure up world money, downstairs in a little bar (with a small orchestra and drinks at $1 a throw), Cardini the Magician made money disappear in his long fingers...
...Germany they call flu Kellergrippe. One British expert thinks it got there by a roundabout plane ride from Britain to the U.S. to South America to Lisbon to Ber lin. He did not explain why the infection could not have gone directly from London, by parachuting flyer, to the Continent. Flu was reported by Swedish papers to have killed 2,000 Berliners last week...