Word: gahagan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ladies. Three new freshmen coeds, all Democrats, will join the six women already in the House. Prettiest newcomer is Hollywood's Helen Gahagan Douglas, 43, wife of Screen Actor Melvyn Douglas, now an Army major shepherding entertainers in the China-Burma-India theater. Miss Gahagan is a former Broadway star (Tonight or Never), mother of two, a passionate New Dealer. Another new Douglas (no relation) in the House is Emily Taft Douglas, daughter of the late Sculptor Lorado Taft, distant cousin of William Howard Taft. Her husband, a University of Chicago economics professor on military leave, was defeated...
Meanwhile, convention plans went full-steam ahead. Massachusetts' tall, toothy Representative John McCormack was picked to head the platform committee; the added list of speakers included Hollywood's Helen Gahagan (herself a candidate for Congress) and beefy, bonhomous War Correspondent Quentin Reynolds. Washington gossip had it that Senator Claude Pepper and Postmaster General Frank Walker would be at the Chicago end of the White House telephone wire; that the President might not even make an acceptance speech, but just acknowledge his renomination at a regular White House press conference. And in Chicago, Ed Kelly's Illinois Democrats...
...Culbert Olson, running far behind on the Democratic ticket, was soundly trounced by bustling Republican Attorney General Earl Warren. Although there was hardly a crackpot candidate or crackpot issue in the campaign, it was still one of the nation's liveliest. Comely Actress Helen Gahagan, Democratic National Committeewoman, shouted herself hoarse for Olson. Gregarious Actor Leo Carrillo, descendant of California's first provisional Governor, added gags to humorless Earl Warren's meetings. Typical Carrillo quip: introducing Warren to "my cousins" in the audience...
...spotted Jimmy Roosevelt spreading charm around a Hollywood party unconscious of a Willkie button slyly pinned to the back of his coat. Walter O'Keefe, a New York comedian, arrived in town to organize a Republican committee with bright-eyed Robert Montgomery as chairman. Democratic National Committeewoman Helen Gahagan (songstress wife of Melvyn Douglas) was rounding up Roosevelt votes with the help of sinister Edward G. Robinson, serene Douglas Fairbanks Jr. National defense got its call with the arrival from Washington of prying Leo Rosten (alias Leonard Q. Ross), essayist and humorist, who was recently appointed "special consultant...
...company with Cinemactors Helen Gahagan and Melvyn Douglas, she saw Okies at home: overalled migrant farmers, their wives and children in poor Sunday best, in squatters' camps by roadsides, private camps on big farms. U.S. Government camps and a Federal cooperative farm. "My, ain't they nice!" said a migrant wife at Visalia, admiring Mrs. Roosevelt's manicure hands (see cut). " A fine lady," said Mrs. W.N. Pace. "She's nice looking, too-just as homey...