Word: hams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Significant was the convention's treatment of two men who have been Legion heroes for almost a quarter-century: Missouri's beet-faced, belligerent Senator Bennett Champ Clark, New York's gangling, ham-handed Representative Hamilton Fish, both airtight, waterproof, hermetically sealed Isolationists. Clark, one of the 17 Legion founders and the first permanent Legion chairman, was roundly booed. Fish, who wrote the preamble to the Legion constitution, came to town to make converts, soon gave up and left...
...Negroes since Jack Johnson's day; 4) Joe's naïveté, natural reserve and disinterest in liquor and tobacco. By the time Louis climbed into the ring to fight Camera, he was a living legend to his people: a black Moses leading the children of Ham out of bondage...
Weeks and weeks without any rain in South Hadley finally reduced President Roswell G. Ham to issuing a stern edict forbidding the Maids of the Mount to use water for any except the most vital presonal needs. No baths or showers will be permitted...
...over all selfish motives and over indifference, the editors of the Crimson saw fit last night to speak for all of Harvard in inviting the waterless belles to a great liquid fiesta in Cambridge, city of cleanliness. We took it on ourselves to initiate the campaign to purify President Ham's soiled lassies...
Until six months ago, short, rubicund Morton Smith was a typical radio ham. His house in hot, humid San Fernando Valley was equipped with a 1,000-watt transmitter, was located in the best sending and receiving area around Los Angeles. Then NBC, for which Amateur Smith works as engineer, decided to set up a listening post on the West Coast to keep tabs on the Far Eastern end of the Axis. Picked for the job was Morton Smith's little station. Last week the post got under...