Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...GORDON C. ICKES...
...Despite the evidence supplied by Third Cousin Gordon Ickes, stubborn Harold remains unconvinced that the coat of arms (see cut] is his own. The International Heraldic Institute's letter to Gordon Ickes states that the name Ickes is found in ancient records under various forms-Icke, Ike, Icken, Iken, Ihk, Ihken, Itzken, Itken, Ickel, Ickels, Ickes-and that these are all to be found in Heintze-Cascorbi's Die Deutschen Familiennamen, Berlin, 1933. The upper half of the shield is silver with a gold crescent on the breast of the black "demi eagle." The lower half...
...insure in time that Australia is not left alone or communications with her forces abroad cut. Everything possible associated with the defense of our own shores must be uppermost in our minds while this crisis lasts." None too popular with Australia's potent trade unions, Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies' War Government is particularly vulnerable to Labor Party criticism. It is a fusion of Australia's two conservative parties, the United Australia and United Country Parties, and has had a majority of only one in the 75-seat Canberra Parliament. The Labor opposition refused to enter...
...Brown's pretty, violin-playing wife). The players average $10 a concert, get nothing for rehearsals, and the union looks the other way. One reason: Biago Casciano, first horn and librarian of the orchestra, is president of the union local. He is also a barber. When Pianist Marcus Gordon arrived in El Paso to play with the symphony, he dropped into the barbershop for a trim, was amazed at being asked some shrewd questions about phrasing in the concerto of the evening...
...Paulette Goddard and the entire Heidt Brigade into the pot with Jimmy Stewart, and the product is not gold but unpalatable musical hash. Stewart remains the easy-going, honest boy from the sticks who migrates to the big city. The heavy is his grump uncle who wants Irish Mary Gordon's property. Although he has to plaster his uncle with a rotten tomato and give away a thousand dollars over the radio to do it, Stewart finally effects the obvious Anschluss. Ma gets the house and Jimmy gets Paulette...