Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave a party for him at the Oxford. Grille last week. With Karl King as chairman and John Horne as MC a boisterous time was had by all. As gifts he received a sterling silver sugar and cream set, a leather traveling clock and other gifts we can not mention...
...than Columnist Pegler. He has pictured N.M.U. as a Communist cell attempting to convert all of U.S. labor; has accused Joe Curran of draft dodging. (Curran, married but childless, was deferred as an essential worker, i.e., labor leader.) But what most infuriated N.M.U.ers-who boil over at the mere mention of Pegler's sleeping-car first name-was the columnist's revival of the old scuttlebutt, repeatedly and officially denied, that U.S. merchant sailors mutinied at Guadalcanal...
...someone try to make the introduction to Disbursing Ashore sound interesting? The title on the first page is as fine an example of forced humor as we have seen for some time: "Disbursing Ashore or a "Wave" Rocks the Ordnance Laboratory (with some mention of the accounting)." The real humor of the situation lies in the fact that many of us may get shore billets and run into the "Wave" situation...
...Press: "Wholly inadequate. . . . Every race and every minority group has its false leaders. This merely shakes the tree instead of getting at the roots." Said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "The country has been informed of certain factors that Governor Kelly's committee hasn't deigned to mention: that the old, discredited Ku Klux Klan is operating in Detroit; that wartime industry has brought to the city numerous white workers from the South who have deep racial feelings; that housing conditions are bad; that Detroit is a fertile field for crackpots and agitators of all kinds, like...
...always wore long flannel underwear in hot weather and had trouble with his spelling: "Oh, how I would love to strike hands with such nobelmen as Father Coughlin, Jearald Winrod, William Dudley Pelley .. . not to say Wheeler, Lindbergh the incomparable, Senator Nye and Walsh, and others too numerous to mention here. Oh, what I would give to be numbered with them, what an honor, what a rare prevelidge...