Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clinton, Tenn. In their weekly Courier-News, Clinton folks looked at the picture of Joe F. York, grave and unsmiling in his Army uniform, his hat tilted proudly to the right. They read the letter his family had received a few days before he was reported dead or captured on Bataan...
...week. Immediately Secretary Stimson appointed as director one of the most remarkable Texans in Washington: Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby, 37-year-old mother of two. Her rank corresponds to that of an Army major. Slim, trim, quiet and pretty, Mrs. Hobby has a taste for fancy hairdos and shocking hats. In the Corps she will wear a uniform hat, but will probably continue to ruin the hairdos by running her hands through her pompadour while thinking. She does a lot of thinking. Her husband, former Texas Governor William Pettus Hobby, once told her: "Anyone with as many ideas...
Leaving Houghton by the front door, the party rounded the steps of Windener, which had been cleared of students, to find over 2000 cheering and clapping undergraduates. In a blaze of flash bulbs and grinding movie cameras Prado, still acknowledging the cheers with his hat, was pulled away in the official limousines as a motorcycle escort cleared a path...
Before leaving Cambridge for Boston and lunch with the Governor at the Harvard Club, Prado visited his son's club on Mount Auburn Street for champagne cocktails. After a brief glance at Lowell House and a final wave of his hat President Prado was escorted down Mount Auburn Street to Boston...
When tall, rasping, grim Robert F. Rich, who needs only a plug hat to look like the cartoons of Mr. Prohibition, departs, the House will no longer hear his oft-repeated demand: "Where are we going to get the money?" For years his wrathful voice, like the chorus in a Greek tragedy, has trumped a falsetto doom. Rich thinks the New Deal communist to the core, believes Roosevelt led the U.S. into...