Word: gerald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress will be shy a few of its predecessor's most flamboyant citizens (Ham Fish, "Cotton Ed" Smith, Gerald Nye, etc.). But it will have its own intriguing collection of new faces. Among them...
...these days," said wisecracking young Captain Gerald McAllister of the Fourteenth Air Force, "some correspondent is going to write about the ships sunk and the troops killed by the Fourteenth, and it's going to wind up like this: 'From all of these missions, eight of our air bases are missing...
...voters showed their internationalist sympathies in ousting Republicans. To defeat went North Dakota's slippery Isolationist Gerald P. Nye, Pennsylvania's Isolationist James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis, and Connecticut's John Danaher. All were replaced by men pledged to U.S. cooperation in world affairs: Governor John Moses in North Dakota, Congressman Francis J. Myers in Pennsylvania, and ex-U.S. Assistant Attorney General Brien McMahon in Connecticut...
...worn-out crackpots have really begun to lay the foundations of a lasting world peace. If you elect us we will not change any of that, either. But,' they whisper, 'well do it in such a way that we won't lose the support even of Gerald Nye or Gerald Smith [or] the Chicago Tribune...
Britain's hardship was organized, disciplined. For themselves, Britons saw no prospect of a violent swing in any direction. But Britons themselves knew that what happened in continental Europe would one day affect Britain. Said the News Chronicle's editor Gerald Barry: This has become the common man's war. Man is trying to find the equation between individual liberty and economic order. Communal control . . . without too great a sacrifice of personal freedom seems to be the common denominator of all resistance movements...