Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been inevitable for so long that even the Democrats opposed to Term IV did not trouble to make any case for the two-term tradition. And long before the ballots were cast, convention orators were unabashedly referring to Franklin Roosevelt as the nominee. On the opening night, Keynoter Bob Kerr, Oklahoma's pink-jowled Governor, set the theme: "with our Commander in Chief to victory." He also showed how deeply one of Tom Dewey's arguments had sunk in by roaring: "Shall we discard as a 'tired old man' 59-year-old Admiral Nimitz . . . 62-year...
...Wallace led, 148 votes to Truman's 125, with seven key states "passing" (waiting to see which way to jump). Then Ed Flynn brought in 74½ New York votes, and Truman went ahead for the first time. The score: Truman 246; Wallace 187. Then Favorite Son Bob Kerr, Governor of Oklahoma, withdrew his name: 22 more votes for Truman...
...Faces. But one trouble with Bob Hannegan's list, and all the others put out by newsmen and dopesters, was that they all had the same old faces. Newest face was that of Oklahoma's rambunctious, New Dealing Governor Robert S. Kerr, who last week was busy trying out his convention keynote speech on his six-year-old son. (According to one dispatch, the son was bored...
...Suffered, I Was There." Among the show's World War I artists were Wallace Morgan, Ernest Peixotto, Horace Pippin, George Harding, Henry Schnakenberg, George Picken, Kerr...
Outstanding was September 13, 1918, Saint Mihiel, by 54-year-old Kerr Eby, now painting for the Marines. It was a pencil drawing of weary, bent men on the march under a sky filled with a ponderous black cloud. Artist Eby says that the cloud hung in the sky for three days; the Germans thought it was an omen...