Word: gram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cheery as a birthday sing-o-gram, that message boomed through the loudspeaker of a British ship, one of several anchored brazenly last week off the German-held Lofoten Islands on Norway's jagged northwestern coast. Bearers of the greeting were Britain's tough Commandos, bent on destruction of radio equipment guiding German shipping along the Axis sea route to the Arctic fighting front in Russia...
Mutual's deliberative Raymond Gram Swing gave the most searching of all the week's radio analyses. "We have been the safest-minded people on earth," he said. "And we have indulged to the full the extravagance of underestimating our opponents....There is however one mercy in this grievous situation....Our defeat has come at the beginning....We can outproduce the Axis. And we can out-will the Axis...
Married. Elizabeth Fraçgoise Swing, 27, daughter of Radio Commentator Raymond Gram Swing; and Dr. Gerald Gabriel Greene, 27, of Rockyhill, Conn.; by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia; in Manhattan...
Backward: Mutual Broadcasting System's grave Analyst Raymond Gram Swing, in an Armistice Day homily at the sick world's bedside, recalled a technical point: "It is not historically true that the issue [of accepting responsibility for world peace] ever was presented to the American nation and that the responsibility was rejected. Twenty years ago Americans through the two major parties were committed either to the League or to a society of nations. . . . Then President Harding, after his election, said that the vote had been a plebiscite against joining...
These figures do not take account of news commentators on both networks who present their own points of view, which are rarely like America First's. Mr. Flynn made a point of this. He even lumped Raymond Gram Swing and William L. Shirer together with Walter Winchell and Dorothy Thompson as "angels...