Word: gerald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every man who cast an honest vote for Willkie" a mellow, flute-playing historian last week dedicated a book about Franklin Roosevelt. Called Roosevelt: Dictator or Democrat,* the book has for its author Gerald White Johnson, a 51-year-old editorial writer of the Baltimore Evening Sun. For its object the book has the aim of reducing the mistrust which many of the 22,000,000 Americans who voted against Roosevelt have for their President...
...Sidney Gerald Larriviere, fireman, first class, Lafayette...
...Eldon Gerald Smith, a rancher, regarded Census queries as an invasion of his rights. Last spring he refused to fill in his draft questionnaire, on the grounds that there was too much red tape in the Government. And he meant it. Alienists examined him. Draft boards harangued him. Finally he was indicted and sent to jail to await trial for draft-dodging. Nothing could budge him. Said he, still wrathy at the memory of the draft questionnaire that had started the whole fuss: "The tone was overbearing and impertinent. It asked questions I thought the Government had no right...
...were dismissed by the Government, ∙∙ Hero Alvin York's 28-year-old nephew of the same name joined the Army in Chattanooga. ∙∙ Carter Glass III, grandson of the Senator, joined the Army Air Corps and was assigned to ground communications. ∙∙ Peter Gerald Lehman, 24-year-old adopted son of New York's Governor Herbert Lehman, enlisted in the R.C.A.F. in Ottawa. The U.S. Army Air Corps had turned him down as a husband and father. ∙∙ Gertrude Lawrence turned down a medal the Finnish Government offered her for Finnish Relief Fund...
William T, Grant National Scholarships to Edward W. Fry, of Marshall, Tex.; Paul G. Jacobson, of Madison, Minn.; William J. Montgomery, of Mason, Tex.; Charles W. Petersmeyer, of Berkeley, Calif.; and Gerald J. Slade, of Utica...