Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over before the election. The sure winner in the battle of personalities (rather than of municipal issues): 55-year-old, Erin-born Democratic and American Labor Party Candidate William O'Dwyer, onetime New York City cop, onetime Brigadier General in the U.S. Army who, like Tom Dewey, gained fame as a gang-busting district attorney...
Booker T. Washington became the (first Negro ever elected to the Hall of Fame.* The onetime slave, pioneer in Negro education and autobiographer (Up From Slavery) received more votes from the 93 Hall of Fame electors than any of the other three newcomers: Georgia-born Poet Sidney Lanier, Revolutionary Pamphleteer Thomas Paine, Yellow Fever Fighter Walter Reed...
Strict, wartime regulations which shut down most of the West Coast's bawdy-houses bothered Lucy not at all. Her local fame and her knowledge of town secrets had long since made her just about immune to the law. By V-J day she had purchased almost $50,000 in war bonds...
Already Spruille Braden was better known to the Latins than any other U.S. figure, Franklin D. Roosevelt perhaps excepted. In five months of Hemispheric fame, twelve years of quieter labors, he had made himself an idol to many, anathema to many others. Nor were all who distrusted or feared him dictators and authoritarians. Many a Latin democrat (perhaps more Latin than democratic) was numbered among his loud detractors...
Because she appears more frequently than the other players, Ginger Rogers at tracts the most attention, as a super-tense film celebrity whose, fame & fortune has brought her nothing but loneliness. But there are half a dozen other competent performers who plow their way through this three-day ordeal in the rooms and corridors of Manhattan's famed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel...