Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the committee got set for opposition witnesses. To the surprise of everybody, only three turned up: crusty, 92-year-old "General" Jacob Sechler Coxey, hero of the 1894 March on Washington; one John Bond Trevor, of the American Coalition, a loose-knit, isolationist organization; and a New York automobile dealer named Hamilton Fish...
...Nineties costume, paraded through downtown streets, waving posters which said that their schools were as outmoded as the clothes they wore. At their teachers' prompting, they went home and bothered their parents likewise. Last week harassed fathers & mothers voted (90,000 to 15,000) a $10 million bond issue to build new schools and modernize old ones...
...tireless joiner, public speaker and partygoer, Palmer Hoyt gets around like no other Oregonian. He drinks his whiskey and gobbles his vitamin pills with equal gusto. His appetite for civic wheelhorsing has never been sated. He helped bring Henry Kaiser to Portland. As Oregon's first War Bond director, he put the state at the head of the U.S. in sales. His methods became the pattern for the national bond drives. In 1943 Hoyt slaved for six months as OWI's domestic director, fought hard to keep war news flowing free from needless and petty censorship...
...they want to try a third quiz? Both refused, triumphantly accepted an I.O.U. for a $25,000 Victory Bond apiece...
...prophet of the big lie, the propagandist who believed in "the thousandfold repetition of the most simple ideas" could not face himself even in the face of doomsday. On rich bond stationery, bearing his printed name and a silver swastika atop each page, he wrote...