Word: gerald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in 18 years, North Dakota's slick Gerald Prentice Nye faced a real threat to his well-warmed seat in the U.S. Senate. On June 27, Congress' foremost isolationist goes into the hardest primary fight of his career...
...Gerald P. Guyer, the druggist: "Ernie sure gets the news back. The other boys don't seem to get hold of the news like Ernie does...
...Among them: Critic Walter Pach, Cellist Gerald Warburg, James Gerard (former U.S. Ambassador to Germany), Artist Constantin Ala-jalov, Correspondent William Shirer, Actress Constance Collier, Composer Howard Dietz, Actor Oscar (Jacobowsky) Karlweiss, Singer Lucrezia Bori...
...Henry Ford celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary. It was also Mrs. Ford's 77th birthday. Mr. Ford spiced his anniversary week with a motor-company promotion (to an executive vice-presidency: his grandson, 26-year-old Henry Ford II) and a personal repudiation (of demagogic Gerald L. K. Smith, who had publicly declared that his brand of nationalism was like Ford's). Said potent Ford Spokesman Harry H. Bennett: "I want to state definitely for Mr. Ford, Charles A. Lindbergh, and myself, if and when Mr. Smith ever attempts to include us with his supporters, nothing is farther...
Killed in Action. First Lieut. Peter Gerald Lehman, 27, eldest son of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Director Herbert Henry Lehman, roommate of top-flight U.S. Ace Captain Don Gentile; in the crash of his fighter plane; somewhere in England. Powerful, popular, jovial Lehman, a football player at Lehigh (ex-'40), joined the R.C.A.F. after having been rejected (because he was married) by the Army & Navy Air Corps, served 18 months of active service in England as a sergeant-pilot before transferring to the U.S.A.A.F. as a flight officer. He had completed 57 combat missions, been awarded...