Word: curtins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...female parts the percentage was higher, with Mildred Mueller contributing an excellent voice to the musically important role of Cherubino and Nancy Trickey and Margaret Goldovsky, who alternated in the part of Susanna, doing very criditable jobs. As the countess, Phyllis Curtin gave an in- and- out performance, muffing badly on the most important aria of the opera, Dove Sono...
...Class of 1944: John Sandt Curtin, Donald James Davis, Robert Day Kemble, Philip Barton Key Potter Jr., William Harrison Shorer, Winsor Soule 2d, Kurt Philip Tauber, Charles Willard Young...
What this country needs, said President Roosevelt at a press conference in April 1942, is a good name for the war. After getting thousands of suggestions, he picked one that barely lasted the day: the War for Survival. Australia's late Prime Minister John Curtin had even less success with his suggestion: the People...
...onetime driver of the crack Sydney-Melbourne express became Prime Minister of Australia last week. By a 3-to-1 vote, Joseph Benedict ("Chif") Chifley was chosen by the Parliamentary Labor Party to succeed the late John Curtin...
Died. John ("Honest Jack") Curtin, 60, Labor Party Prime Minister of Australia, policeman's son, onetime printer's devil, revolutionary socialist, trade unionist, journalist and political orator, who marshaled Australia's strength to stand off the Jap, and converted it (in co-operation with his good friend General Douglas MacArthur) into the Pacific war's first Allied bastion; of a heart ailment, in Canberra, Australia. Quiet but forceful, austere but approachable, Curtin was described by Winston Churchill as a " commanding, competent and wholehearted leader...