Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unknown was the vote of the old Farmer-Labor Party. Up for the Senate nomination was a woman who personified the party's problem: charming Norma Ward Lundeen, the 46-year-old widow of British-hating, German-loving Senator Ernest Lundeen, who was killed in a 1940 airplane crash. Mrs. Lundeen, firm of jaw and of conviction, is campaigning to vindicate her husband's bitter-end isolationism, "to travel under his banner." People who had already looked under Lundeen's banner had found there many smelly characters like George Sylvester Viereck, old Lundeen friend now serving...
Decision. In Columbus, Ga., Ernest Pershing Rasberry could stand it no more, asked a court to change his last name to plain Berry...
...military commission which tried the saboteurs had recommended that the other two, George John Dasch and Ernest Peter Burger, get life imprisonment instead of death. They had turned informers. President Roosevelt, reviewing the commission's findings, reduced Dasch's sentence to 30 years at hard labor. (Dasch and Burger might be useful at the trials of 14 men & women accused of giving the spies shelter...
...previous marriages, and Son David brought along his wife. There were 23 members of the White House staff. The only other guests: Mrs. Clinchy; Playwright Robert Sherwood, who often lends a hand on White House speeches; Presidential Adviser Samuel I. Rosenman; General George C. Marshall, Admiral Ernest J. King...
...onetime famed FBIman, Reed Ernest Vetterli, whose career could yield a dozen detective yarns, is in the middle of his hardest case: trying to get elected to Congress as a Republican in Utah's heavily New Deal Second District. His platform: support the President in the war; get new blood into Congress...