Word: hams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robson should be an effective force against the further spread of radio ham. His Man Behind the Gun has received many unsolicited tributes, but none so telling as the complaint of some returned U.S. marines who heard his three dramatizations of their experiences on Guadalcanal. The marines asked him please not to put them through it again...
...Next to frankfurters the soldier likes baked ham. Then roast veal and sausage. Fifteen per cent of all roast beef, bacon and cold cuts goes back to the kitchen, 25% of liver. Never strong for green vegetables, the soldier especially detests kale. He likes baked potatoes next to mashed...
Bald, rumpled Foreign Minister Alberto Guani of Uruguay, en route for a visit to the U.S., paused last week in Rio de Janeiro's swank Copacabana Hotel to give a tip on a new trend in South America foreign policies. Over ham, potato salad and agua mineral he told reporters...
...last week in office capped the climax. When a guard at the State Prison at Tattnall testified that he had regularly delivered ham, eggs and chickens to Gene's home, Gene was unperturbed. Said he: "Sure I got the eggs and the chickens and I ate them. ... I'd advise the next Governor to try the same plan. It helps to keep expenses down." Just before his special powers expired, Gene displayed thrift with a vengeance: he sent Georgia's check for exactly $1,070,231.35 to the Federal Government. This was the State's share...
...appear before the District of Columbia grand jury. Stokes grabbed a taxi, scooted for Dennett's office, there watched a truck being loaded with mailbags. He followed while some of the bags were delivered to the America First Committee headquarters, others to the offices of isolationist Republican Congressman "Ham" Fish. When he phoned Fish's office and got a flat denial that any of the mailbags were there, Stokes wangled his way into Fish's locker room, found the bags...