Word: gerald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gerald F. Loughlin, chief geologist of the U.S. Geological Survey, gave the answer: "No." Reporting to his volcanic boss, Secretary of Interior Ickes, Dr. Loughlin estimated that the chances were three or four million to one against a blockbuster touching off a volcanic eruption. It might happen, said he, if a bomb hit a rock wedged in the vent of a volcano which was just barely holding the volcanic force back. But, he added, "the earth forces involved are so enormous as compared with any that man can bring to bear that the latter are wholly inconsequential...
...Republican reception in Detroit, Wendell Willkie learned he was being picketed by America First disciples of rabble-rousing Gerald L. K. Smith, promptly issued a statement: "I want to tell you how proud and happy that makes me feel. I doubt if anyone ever was so fortunate in the nature of his opposition...
With this squint-eyed rewrite of Tennyson, rabble-rousing Senator Gerald P. Nye last week keynoted the New Isolationism...
Each time Gerald Nye belittled United Nations strategy, postwar planning, Roosevelt, Willkie, Churchill, Stalin, or Chiang Kaishek, the catcalls and clapping rocked the chandeliers, quivered against the black-and-jade glass murals...
Until last week, Gerald Nye had not harangued a big isolationist audience with a big isolationist speech since the afternoon of Dec. 7, 1941, in Pittsburgh, when he sweatily, stubbornly refused for hours to believe that the Japs had really attacked Pearl Harbor...