Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boom & Bedlam...
...regard to your airline article "Boom & Bedlam" (TIME, Aug. 5), might it not be pertinent to mention...
...Meadmen who offered him the convention chairmanship for his support, Jim Farley gave a curt no. New York City's Mayor William O'Dwyer said yes. So did Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt to an invitation to be the convention keynoter. If the LaGuardia boom held up, the convention at Albany on Sept. 3 would probably touch off some fancy fireworks...
...Farley's John J. Bennett a terrific trouncing (and took about 40% of the New York City vote). Jim Mead scared the GOPsters not one bit; and until last week it did not seem to matter much whom Tom Dewey picked to run for the Senate. The LaGuardia boom ripped apart their apathy. It would take a somebody to beat little Butch...
Last week New York City Republicans got a boom going for a somebody: Major General William J. Donovan. Manhattan Lawyer Donovan (onetime Assistant U.S. Attorney General) had unusual assets for vote appeal: a nickname ("Wild Bill," from his football days at Columbia University) ; fame as a World War I hero (the Congressional Medal of Honor) and distinction in World War II as head of the cloak-and-dagger Office of Strategic Services...