Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each day, at 9 a.m., OWMR Boss Vinson has a standing date with President Truman. Not many domestic problems cross the presidential desk without bringing the inquiry: "Fred, what do you think of this...
...down when Small alighted from the bus in the dawn and dragged his bag over to the general store. Old Frank Cunningham, town jack-of-all-trades, was standing there. Said Cunningham: "Well, well, it's Phil Small." In Cunningham's battered coupe, Phil Small drove off cross-country through the rain...
...Navy since 1942, had a reunion with his energetic mother, Margaret Emerson, in Hawaii. The much-married (four times) Bromo-Seltzer heiress turned up as a Red Cross field worker, found that her 32-year-old millionaire-sportsman son looked less like a playboy...
Field has another, equally hush-hush, plan: to inject a bit of fresh, leftish air into rural weeklies. His partner in this project (incorporated as Cross Country Reports) is Banker-Economist James Paul Warburg, an early New Dealer, then a fervent anti (Hell Bent for Election) and finally, in 1944, a doorbell-ringer for Sidney Hillman's P.A.C. Field and Warburg's ambition is to set up as a rival to powerful Western Newspaper Union which sends boiler-plate material ("pretty reactionary") to U.S. weeklies. Says Field, grinning: "I don't think I'll make...
...forth a spate of topical books. The best-seller of 1917 was H. G. Wells's novel Mr. Britling Sees It Through, which described the effect of two years of war on a literary Briton who lost his son. Robert W. Service's Rhymes of a Red Cross Man became one of the rare volumes of poetry to make the list. Mary Green's cookbook, Better Meals for Less Money, designed for shortage-harried housewives, brought Author Green considerably more money. But by the end of 1918 the U.S. public had tired of both war and "hooverizing...