Word: jordan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three years knuckle-headed, know-it-all Fibber McGee has been larding his fun program with monthly propaganda plugs-about waste fats, car pools, etc. The funniest part is that the customers like it. Last week Fibber & Molly (Jim & Marion Jordan) pitched their 30th Government plug, a Wistful Vista bond rally; they also edged ahead of Bob Hope again in their neck-&-neck race for program popularity...
Born. To Kathryn Jordan Goodman, 24, daughter of radio's top corn-& -cackle combination, Fibber McGee and Molly; and Lieut, (j.g.) Adrian Goodman. 24. U.S. Navy doctor; their first child, a daughter, Fibber and Molly's first grandchild; in Hollywood. Name: Diane Marie. Weight...
...Jordan L. Golding--Judy Goldman (Wisconsin) in mind that these fellows are more exposed to bribery and corruption than anyone else employed in this kind of administration. The interpreter is a figure as important in military and internal administration, and often as venal, as the dragoman in the days of the old Turk in Constantinople...
Speed and accuracy have been of the essence, and with good reason. As Robert Jordan, Hemingway's FWTBT hero, reminded himself, "They trusted you on the language principally. They trusted you on understanding the language completely and speaking it idiomatically...
Faced with a different task from that of Robert Jordan, the CATS have much the same difficulty. To fit these men for their jobs as administrators of occupied territories, Harvard has pioneered in finding the optimum method for accelerating language teaching...