Word: haying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Premier Drew became more & more restless. As a Tory, he suspected Liberal King of making political hay for the Liberal Party. As a provincial premier, he thought the federal Government was milking rich Ontario. Then, a fortnight ago Quebec voted in the Quebec-first Union Nationale Party (TIME, Aug. 21). This means that the two provinces which have roughly two-thirds of Canada's wealth and people are now controlled by staunch States'-rights partisans...
June Havoc, Broadway musicomedienne (Mexican Hay ride), had her broken leg taken out of a plaster cast, went off to Hollywood to star in the cast of Brewster's Millions. Present at the taking-out party: her sister Gypsy Rose Lee, reported by New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson to be expecting a child in February and planning to divorce her husband, Actor Alexander Kirkland...
...week President Roosevelt, tanned, gay and relaxed, returned to the U.S. after 29 days and 10,000 miles of absence from the August heat of Washington -and from the flickering European War. Perhaps his most important accomplish ment was a good vacation. Incidentally he had made a little political hay...
Political Hay. Some pro-Administration newspapers dutifully headlined the Waikiki Conference as a "War Council,'' but the meeting actually seemed to have little strategic significance. Pacific War plans, if for no other reason than the huge logistics involved, have been set long in advance. Had any major revision been contemplated, Franklin Roosevelt would almost certainly have brought along General Marshall and Admiral King. As it was, except for his personal chief of staff, Admiral Leahy, the chief advisers on the trip were Sam Rosenman, his speech writer, and OWI Boss Elmer Davis...
...Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken), an awkward, befuddled but eager son of suburbia, is the "hero." Given a rousing send-off by fellow citizens of Oakridge, Calif., he marches confidently off to war, only to be ignominiously bounced out of Marine boot camp because of his chronic hay fever. Burning with shame, he thinks of his father, Hinky Dink Truesmith, a hero who died gloriously at Belleau Wood on the day his son was born; of his mother, so proud and radiant, weeping on the station platform; of the brass bands tootling and banners proudly declaiming: "Like father, like...